When Art Is the Weapon: Culture and Resistance Confronting Violence in the Post-Uprisings Arab World
This articles explores 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 product...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2015]
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Religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 1277-1313 |
Further subjects: | B
revolutionary art
B Tahrir Square B Arab Spring |
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Summary: | This articles explores 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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ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel6041277 |