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9. The Hairbrush and the Dagger: Mediating Modernity in Lahore

  • Richard McGill Murphy
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Mass Mediations
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© 2010 University of California Press, Berkeley

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
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520923096-012

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
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