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Cargando... Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islampor Mark Levine
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This updated reissue of Mark LeVine's acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub- and countercultural music in the Middle East brings this groundbreaking portrait of the region's youth cultures to a new generation. Featuring a new preface by the author in conversation with the band The Kominas about the problematic connections between extreme music and Islam. An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley's "Redemption Song." Heavy metal, punk, hip-hop, and reggae are each the music of protest, and are considered immoral by many in the Muslim world. As the young people and subcultures featured in Mark LeVine's Heavy Metal Islam so presciently predicted, this music turned out to be the soundtrack of countercultures, uprisings, and even revolutions from Morocco to Pakistan. In Heavy Metal Islam, originally published in 2008, Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western music on the Middle East and North Africa through interviews with musicians and fans, introducing us to young people struggling to reconcile their religion with a passion for music and a thirst for change. The result is a revealing tour de force of contemporary cultures across the Muslim majority world through the region's evolving music scenes that only a musician, scholar, and activist with LeVine's unique breadth of experience could narrate. A New York Times Editor's Pick when it was first published, Heavy Metal Islam is a surprising, wildly entertaining foray into a historically authoritarian region where music reveals itself to be a true democratizing force--and a groundbreaking work of scholarship that pioneered new forms of research in the region. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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How does extreme music interact with oppression? In his journey through the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, Levine explores extreme music as a mode of resistance for young people alienated by dictatorship and conservative culture. Besides expressing an appreciation for rock, metal and hip-hop throughout the region, he also explores the history of the music there and its relationship with political and cultural forces. The result is a cross-section of the edges of societies he's looking at - in Egypt, for example, he interviews metal bands as well as political dissidents such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and puts them in dialogue with each other. At the end of the day, he claims, they're all fighting for something similar, although they have some miles to go if they are to come together.
The political bent of this book - anti-imperialist, pro-freedom of expression - was pretty solid, and Levine goes out of his way to note the roots of the problems young people in these countries face in both the governments and societies of their countries as well as the US role in supporting these governments. One thing that struck me about the bands interviewed in the book was their generally middle-class nature. As the author notes, in the US and Europe, metal and hip-hop arose out of working-class roots. However, in the countries examined, these metal scenes have tended towards middle- and upper-class artists. Why this is isn't for sure, although the book suggests openness to Western culture as well as access to the means of getting the music may be a large part of it.
Levine points to the openness and against-the-grain personalities of these privileged young people, as well as a number of opposition parties and movements, as an alternative to conservative morality, militancy, and armed struggle, which appear in the book to be more appealing to poor and working-class youth. The class dynamics of these tendencies deserve greater examination. (