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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKamaludeen Mohmed Nasir's important contribution to the field most certainly gives the reader a theoretically insightful and empirically thorough account of the Muslim side of this development. Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation is highly recommended to specialized readers interested in Muslim popular culture, religion in general, globalization as well as avid hip-hop heads interested in the global impact of their culture.
-- Anders Ackfeldt * CyberOrient *
With Representing Islam, [Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir] has produced an important sourcebook on global Muslim hip-hop in all its shades and a valuable sociological study of Muslim youth culture in the post-9/11 world.
-- Philipp Bruckmayr * Die Welt des Islams *
The book, written in an engaging, accessible language, is a significant contribution to the field of Muslim popular culture and will be a very useful source for students of global hip hop, globalization, youth culture and contemporary Muslim cultural expressions.
-- Jeanette S. Jouili * Global Hip Hop Studies *
Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir's Representing Islam argues that hip-hop is for the September 11 Muslim generation a route to freedom of expression, looking at how 'young Muslims [. . .] have embraced and appropriated hip-hop music as their anthem in response to the surging Islamophobia following September 11' (p. 2). . . . This is a solid contribution to hip-hop and popular music studies within Muslim culture and beyond.
-- Sikelelwa Anita Mashiy * Popular Music *
Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir's Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation . . . sheds new light on understanding and interpreting the articulation, manifestations, and implications of and about Islam in this globalized and digitalized age. . . . A strategic and critical engagement between the micro and macro persoectives in sociology of Islam, Representing Islam is recommended to all students and researchers interested in Islamic religiosity, Muslim popular cultures, and research design in social hermeneutics approaches
-- Martin Jiajun He * American Journal of Islam and Society *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Anthem of a Generation
1. Songs Rather Than Screams
2. Something that is Ours... and still Authentically Islam
3. It is... a Problem of Human Rights
4. She Reppin' Islam and She Gives it a Meaning
5. Enemy of the State
6. Keeping it Real... Keeping it Cool...
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