ABSTRACT
The papers in this collection have a common theme in the question of modernity and mass culture. Two papers, those by Chaney and Featherstone respectively, discuss aspects of this theme in a general, global context, all the others are concerned more specifically with the regional context of the Middle East. All the articles in this collection were
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|119 pages
Mass Culture: General Perspectives
part II|88 pages
Features of Islam and Popular Culture
part III|35 pages
Popular Culture and the Nation State
part IV|54 pages
Social Life and Popular Culture in Transition: Case Studies from Cairo