Music and Media in the Arab World

SUMARIO. Contributors // Acknowledgments // Introduction / Music and media in the Arab world and music and media in the Arab world as music and media in the Arab world : a metadiscourse ; Michael Frishkopf // Historical Reflection / 1. A history of music and singing on Egyptian radio and television ; Zein Nassar / 2. Arabic music videos and their implications for Arab music and media ; Moatza Abdel Aziz / 3. Arab music and changes in the Arab media ; Mounir Al Wassimi / 4. Music and television in Lebanon / Elisabeth Cestor / 5. Mass media and music in the Arab Persian Gulf ; Laith Ulaby // Cultural Critique, Cultural Analysis / 6. Critique : Music of the streets : the story of a television program ; Yasser Abdel-Latif / 7. Analysis : What's not on Egyptian television and radio! : locating the 'popular' in Egyptian Sha'bi ; James R. Grippo / 8. Critique : Ruby and the checkered heart ; Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri / 9. Analysis : The controversy over satellite : music television in contemporary Egypt ; Patricia Kubala / 10. Critique : Caliphs and clips ; Tamim Al-Barghouti / 11. Analysis : What would Sayyid Qutb say? : some reflections on video clips ; Walter Armbrust / 12. Critique : Images of women in advertisements and video clips : a case study of Sherif Sabri ; Hany Darwish / 13. Analysis : Arab video music : imagined territories and the liberation of desire (or sex lives in video (clip)) ; Walid El Khachab / 14. Critique: The biographies of Stalets today : revolutions in sound and images ; Wael Abdel Fattah / 15. Analysis : Real-politics : televised talent competitions and democracy promotion in the Middle East ; Katherine Meizel.