When Art Is the Weapon: Culture and Resistance Confronting Violence in the Post-Uprisings Arab World
(2015) In Religions 6(4). p.1277-1313- Abstract
- This article examines the explosion of artistic production in the Arab world during the so-called Arab Spring. Focusing on music, poetry, theatre, and graffiti and related visual arts, I explore how these do-it-yourself scenes represent, at least potentially, a return of the aura to the production of culture at the edge of social and political transformation. At the same time, the struggle to retain a revolutionary grounding in the wake of successful counter-revolutionary moves highlights the essentially religious grounding of committed art at the intersection of intense creativity and conflict across the Arab world.
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- author
- Levine, Mark LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Arab Spring, revolutionary art, Tahrir Square
- in
- Religions
- volume
- 6
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 1277 - 1313
- publisher
- MDPI AG
- external identifiers
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- wos:000367603800009
- scopus:84946910412
- ISSN
- 2077-1444
- DOI
- 10.3390/rel6041277
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 4177b42b-6a1d-4d8d-b777-c5d4438549e3 (old id 8761522)
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- 2016-04-01 13:24:06
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