Local Music Scenes and Globalization : Transnational Platforms In Beirut.

This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and propaganda. Burkhalter studies the generation of musicians born at the beginning of the Civil War in the Lebanese capital, an urban and cosmopolitan center with a long tradition of cultural activities and exchanges with the Arab world, Europe, the US, and the former Soviet Union.

204 p.
Cloth
ISBN: 0415808138
ISBN13: 9780415808132
UPC: 9780415808132