Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Contents:
A note on transliteration : introduction : "Arab" + "Avant-garde" / Kay Dickinson -- Transforming space : the production of contemporary Syrian art music / Shayna Silverstein -- Balancing integration and disintegration : Amir Elsaffar and the contingent avant-garde / Kamran Rastegar -- Multisited avant-gardes or world music 2.0? Musicians from Beirut and beyond between local production and Euro-American reception / Thomas Burkhalter -- The "people's artist" and the beginnings of the twentieth-century Arab avant-garde / Saed Muhssin -- Challenging the status quo in war-torn Lebanon : Ziad Rabhani, the avant-garde heir to musical tradition / Sami W. Asmar -- A look at lightning : the life and compositions of Halim El-Dabh / Michael Khoury -- Sonic cosmopolitanisms : experimental improvised music and a Lebanese-American cultural exchange / Marina Peterson -- Activism and authenticity : Palestinian and related hip-hop in an international frame / Caroline Rooney -- Noise and its formless shadows : Egypt's extreme metal as avant-garde Nafas Dawsha / Benjamin J. Harbert.
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