Bad Girls of the Arab World

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ID19906165
AuthorsDiya Abdo, Laila Al-Atrash, Suhair Al-Tal, Amal Amireh, Anne Marie E Butler, Patricia Caillé, Anita H Fábos, Rawan W Ibrahim (0000-0002-8175-8109), Florence Martins (0000-0002-6055-5636), Florence Martin, Rima Najdi, Adania Shibli
EditorsNadia Yaqub (0000-0003-1189-628X), Rula Quawas
Year2017
Publication date2017-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBad Girls of the Arab World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Texas Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7560/313350
OpenAlexW4240443378
Open LibraryOL34909788M
ISBN9781477313374
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Explores the new ‘bad girls’ of Sudanese music as they defy national boundaries to bring women’s perspectives and critiques to a global audience. Performers such as Alsarah and Rasha have access to a world music stage to comment upon gender and racial hierarchies, chide Sudanese power brokers about their transgressions, and encourage a more inclusive and just society. Pushback against new voices have included charges in the public domain (e.g. YouTube comments) that these performances are haram and sullied by foreign influence. Emerging out of a larger ethnographic investigation of the Sudanese acoustics of diaspora, my feminist analysis of ‘bad girl’ musicians places their voices in a context of shifting patterns of global migration, national integration policies and the dispersal of families, contemporary expressions of Islamic “authenticity” and anti-Muslim sentiments, and gender and generational tensions among refugee and migrant Sudanese

History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Socioeconomic Development in MENA · Arab countries · Fâeminisme · Feminism · Social conditions · Women

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