Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection   examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character   of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular   culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communication   and new  dimensions of identity that affect economics, politics, aesthetics, and    performance.     Reflected in these essays is the fact that mass media are as ubiquitous in   Cairo and Karachi as in Los Angeles and Detroit. From Persian popular music in   Beverly Hills to Egyptians' reaction to a recent film on Gamal Abdel Nasser;   from postmodern Turkish novels to the music of an Israeli transsexual singer,   the essays illustrate the multiple contexts of modern cultural production.    The unfolding of modernity in colonial and postcolonial societies has been   little analyzed until now.  In addressing transnational aspects of Middle   Eastern societies, the contributors also challenge conventional assumptions   about the region and its relation to the West. The volume will have wide appeal   both to Middle Eastern scholars and to readers interested in global and cultural   studies.

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