4. Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International: Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation, and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian Border

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VII
4. PREFACE IX
5. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION XI
6. 1. Introduction: Anxieties of Scale 1
7. 2. Public Culture in Arab Detroit: Creating Arab/American Identities in a Transnational Domain 32
8. 3. The 6/8 Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music from Bazm-e Qajariyyeh to Beverly Hills Garden Parties 61
9. 4. Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International: Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation, and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian Border 88
10. 5. Playing It Both Ways: Local Egyptian Performers between Regional Identity and International Markets 120
11. 6. Joujouka/Jiyouka/Zahjoukah: Moroccan Music and Euro-American Imagination 146
12. 7. Nasser 56/Cairo 96: Reimaging Egypt's Lost Community 161
13. 8. Consuming Damascus: Public Culture and the Construction of Social Identity 182
14. 9. The Hairbrush and the Dagger: Mediating Modernity in Lahore 203
15. 10. "Beloved Istanbul": Realism and the Transnational Imaginary in Turkish Popular Culture 224
16. 11. Badi'a Masabni, Artiste and Modernist: The Egyptian Print Media's Carnival of National Identity 243
17. 12. American Ambassador in Technicolor and Cinemascope: Hollywood and Revolution on the Nile 269
18. 13. The Golden Age before the Golden Age: Commercial Egyptian Cinema before the 1960s 292
19. REFERENCES 329
20. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 355
21. INDEX 359