LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / | vii | |
PREFACE / | ix | |
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION / | xi | |
1. |
Introduction: Anxieties of Scale Walter Armbrust / | 1 |
2. |
Public Culture in Arab Detroit: Creating Arab/American Identities in a Transnational Domain Andrew Shryock / | 32 |
3. |
The 6/8 Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music from Bazm-e Qajariyyeh to Beverly Hills Garden Parties Anthony Shay / | 61 |
4. |
Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International: Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation, and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian Border Ted Swedenburg / | 88 |
5. |
Playing It Both Ways: Local Egyptian Performers between Regional Identity and International Markets Katherine E. Zirbel / | 120 |
6. |
Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah: Moroccan Music and Euro-American Imagination Philip Schuyler / | 146 |
7. | Nasser 56/ Cairo 96: Reimaging Egypt's Lost Community Joel Gordon / | 161 |
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