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Book SynopsisIn his iconic musical travelogue Heavy Metal Islam, Mark LeVine first brought the views and experiences of a still-young generation to the world. In We'll Play till We Die, he joins with this generation's leading voices to write a definitive history of the era, closing with a cowritten epilogue that explores the meanings and futures of youth music from North Africa to Southeast Asia. We'll Play till We Die dives into the revolutionary music cultures of the Middle East and larger Muslim world before, during, and beyond the waves of resistance that shook the region from Morocco to Pakistan. This sequel to Mark LeVine's celebrated Heavy Metal Islam shows how some of the world's most extreme music not only helped inspire and define region-wide protests, but also exemplifies the beauty and diversity of youth cultures throughout the Muslim world. Two years after Heavy Metal Islamwas published in 2008, uprisings and revolutions spread like wildfire. The young people organizing and prote
Trade Review"Seen from one angle, Mark LeVine is a respected professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Irvine, not far from Los Angeles. . . . But LeVine is also a rock guitarist gifted enough to perform in the shadow of Mick Jagger or Doctor John. . . . In fact, LeVine combines his academic methods and his passion for music in his solid investigations of the alternative scene in the Middle East . . . His last book, We'll Play Till We Die, deals with material gathered during, as the book's subtitle puts it, his Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World."
* Le Monde *
"The fresh and original perspective LeVine shows in Heavy Metal Islam and We’ll Play Till We Die opens our eyes to the power of music to create an audience, engage it and encourage it to act." * Oriente Moderno *
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Author’s Note: Revolutionary Auras and Phantasms
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
From Uprisings to Plagues
1 • Morocco
Finding Harmonies in a Land of Dissidence
2 • Yalla, “Let’s Play!”
Egypt from the Pharaoh to the General
3 • Palestine/Israel
Uprisings in Music
4 • Lebanon
Remixed but Never Remastered
5 • Iran
Living in the Upside Down and Inside Out
6 • Pakistan
Shredding the Funk from the Valleys to the Sea
By Way of an Epilogue
The Joys of Resistance
References by Chapter
List of Contributors
Index
