1st Edition
Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation
By Christopher Stone
Copyright 2008
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on an award-winning thesis, this volume is a pioneering study of musical theatre and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity in Lebanon in the second half of the twentieth century.
In the aftermath of the departure of the French from Lebanon and the civil violence of 1958, the Rahbani brothers (Asi and Mansour) staged a series of folkloric musical... Read more
Introduction 1. Baalbeck and the Rahbanis: Folklore 2. The Musical Theater of the Rahbani Brothers: Representation and the Formation of Subjectivities 3. Ziad Rahbani’s Theatrical "Novelization" of the Rahbanis' Lebanon 4. Fairouz and/as the Nation. Conclusion: Beiteddine 2000 and Beyond. Appendix: The Musical Theater of the Rahbanis
Biography
Christopher Stone is an Associate Professor of Arabic and Head of the Arabic Division at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies.
