Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
This nonfiction work traces the relationship between Muslim youth culture and music. Using hip-hop and reggae as entry points, it shows how immigrant communities and protest expression become intertwined.
Work Information
Music becomes a way to survey a moving landscape of culture and politics.
The book connects youth cultures around the world through music and looks for forms of solidarity that do not appear in religious or political frameworks alone. It is academic in scope but still rewarding as a read on contemporary culture.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Published
- 2014-03-04
- Pages
- 432 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780375424908
- ISBN-10
- 0375424903
- Category
- 洋書/Arts & Photography/Music/Musical Genres/Rap
This fascinating, timely, and important book on the connection between music and political activism among Muslim youth around the world looks at how hip-hop, jazz, and reggae, along with Andalusian and Gnawa music, have become a means of building community and expressing protest in the face of the West’s policies in the War on Terror. Hisham Aidi interviews musicians and activists, and reports from music festivals and concerts in the United States, Europe, North Africa, and South America, to give us an up-close sense of the identities and art forms of urban Muslim youth. We see how the current cultural and political turmoil in Europe’s urban periphery echoes that moment in the 1910s when Islamic movements began appearing among African-Americans in northern American cities, and how the Black Freedom Movement and the words of Malcolm X have inspired the increasing racialization and radicalization of young Muslims today. More unexpected is how the United States and some of its allies have used hip-hop and Sufi music to try to deradicalize Muslim youth abroad. Aidi’s interviews with jazz musicians who embraced Islam in the post–World War II years and took their music to Europe and Africa recall the 1920s, when jazz inspired cultural ferment in Europe and North Africa. And his conversations with the last of the great Algerian Andalusi musicians, who migrated to Paris’s Latin Quarter after the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954, speak for the musical symbiosis between Muslims and Jews in the kasbah that attracted the attention of the great anticolonial thinker Frantz Fanon. Illuminating and groundbreaking, Rebel Music takes the pulse of the phenomenon of this new youth culture and reveals not only the rich historical context from which it is drawn but also how it can foretell future social and political change.
HISHAM D. AIDI is a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Institute of African Affairs at Columbia University. He was a Carnegie Scholar and Global Fellow at The Open Society Foundation and is coeditor, with Manning Marable, of Black Routes to Islam .
Reviews
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Insightful and Informative
From importing enchanted Moroccan women to serve in brothels, to exporting 'Hip Hop envoys' as goodwill ambassadors for perception management, Rebel Music candidly and accurately explains the absorption and subsequent emanation of culture, music and religion of colonized peoples by the colonial states. A well researched piece by Hisham, unapologetic and outspoken, thus ironically sharing the characteristics of very music genre that is ubiquitous in the book; real Hip-Hop!
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Lo consiglio
Libro molto interessante
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and has a great knowledge and appreciation of music and those who create ...
An absolutely extraordinary book - the author has traveled the world, interviewed hundreds (if not thousands) of people, used an astounding number of primary and secondary sources, and has a great knowledge and appreciation of music and those who create it. He presents this information and his analysis in a way that permits those who are not familiar with the subject to understand it all quite easily. A book of great erudition which reads like a detective novel!
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Epic survey of philosophies of music and race from pre- colonial to cold war to our contemporary interlocking connections.
A historic survey to contemporary commentary that shows how we arrived at this complex and interwoven status of American, European and North African mix of race being exposed and determined by our philosophies in our music . These threads of our historic tapestry are joined with the present to form a panoramic view
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Run
I was very excited when I bought this book because of its very appealing subject, however I was in for a surprise, this is a very dense and extremely boring book, that isn’t even educational or informative, a very big waste of time