Rebel music : race, empire, and the new Muslim youth culture / Hisham D. Aidi.

First edition.

9780375424908 hardcover
0375424903 hardcover

New York : Pantheon Books, [2014]

©2014

English

xxx, 398 pages ; 25 cm

BP188.18.Y68 A36 2014

305.235/088297

"In this timely, revelatory study, Hisham Aidi examines the secular and religious movements that have recently emerged among Muslim youth in the West as a means of protest against the policies of the "War on Terror." He interviews artists and activists, and reports from music festivals and concerts. He explains how certain kinds of music--particularly hip hop, but also Jazz, gnawa, Andalusian, Judeo-Arabic, Latin and others--have come to represent a heightened racial identity and a Muslim consciousness that criss-crosses the globe. He describes how western governments--particularly the U.S. and England--use music in an attempt to deradicalize Muslim youth abroad. And he explores the increasing radicalization among Muslim youth in an historical context: looking back to the Civil Rights movement and to the words of Malcolm X which have inspired many American Muslims. In all, Aidi has written a riveting, eye-opening portrait of a growing, potentially radical segment of the global youth culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-377), discography (pages 341-343), filmography (page 343), and index.

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