Muslims Making British Media: Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion
Ebook
Drawing on original fieldwork, Carl Morris examines Muslim cultural production in Britain, with a focus on the performance-based entertainment industries: music, comedy, film, television and theatre. It is a seminal study that charts the growing agency and involvement of British Muslims in cultural production over the last two decades. Morris sets this discussion within the context of wider religious, social and cultural change, with important insights concerning the sociological profile, religious lives and public visibility of Muslims in contemporary Britain.
Morris draws on theoretical considerations concerning the mediatization of religion and cosmopolitanization in a globally-connected world. He argues that a new generation of media-savvy and internationalist Muslim cultural producers in Britain are constructing counter narratives in the public sphere and are reshaping everyday religious lives within their own communities. This is having a profound impact upon areas that range from Islamic authority and religious practice, to political and public debate, and understandings of Muslim identity and belonging.
A seminal examination of Muslim cultural production in contemporary Britain, including music, film, comedy, television and theatre.
Includes valuable empirical findings that document Muslim artistic and cultural activity over the last two decades
A distinctive contribution to wider theoretical debates concerning public religion in Britain and wider processes of religious, social and cultural change amongst Muslims
Includes specific case studies that consider the overlap between Britain and North America, and the emergence of English-language Muslim cultures
Introduction: Muslims, Media and Popular Culture
Part I
1. A Cultural History of Muslims in Britain: From Colonial Newsreels to Post-9/11 Broadcasting
2. Sound and Vision: From Rappers and Rockers to the Muslim Netflix
3. Understanding Muslim Popular Culture: Rethinking Islam in the Media Age
Part II
4. Voices of Authority: Knowledge, Nurture and Sectarianism
5. Everyday Islam: Consumer Culture, Performance and Spirituality
6. Speaking Out: Representation, Discrimination and Identity Politics
7. Communal Culture: Diaspora, Myth and Imagined Communities
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
This book is a necessary survey of a long established Muslim cultural scene. The number of groups and genres included make this text an essential introduction to how Muslims are cultural producers, no matter where they are. Mixed with history and sociology, the author contextualizes and recognizes the humanity of the Muslims he talks about in the book. A solid introductory and foundational text.
Muslims Making British Media brilliantly chronicles how Muslim cultural producers have been making their voices heard in the 21st century. Carl Morris is a sure-footed guide to the creative successes and formidable dilemmas that British Muslims encounter as they produce TV, film, theatre, comedy and music.
- Title: Muslims Making British Media: Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion
- Author: Carl Morris
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350265370, 9781350265356, 1350265357, 1350265373
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350265370
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T07:24:07Z
Carl Morris is Lecturer in Religion, Culture and Society at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.