Muslims Making British Media: Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion

by Carl Morris

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350265370
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/17/2022
Series:	Islam of the Global West
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	400 KB

About the Author

Carl Morris is Lecturer in Religion, Culture and Society at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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.” —Hussein Rashid, independent scholar, USA

“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.” —Daniel Nilsson DeHanas, Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Religion, King's College London, UK

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