Popular culture and nationalism in Lebanon : the Fairouz and Rahbani nation
Christopher Reed Stone (Author)
Based on an award-winning thesis, this volume is a pioneering study of musical theatre and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity in Lebanon in the second half of the twentieth century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 226 pages ; 23 cm.
9780415772730, 9780203939321, 9780415781664, 0415772737, 0203939328, 0415781663
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Introduction
1. Baalbeck and the Rahbanis: folklore, ancient history and nationalism
2. The musical theater of the Rahbani Brothers: representation and the formation of subjectivities
3. Ziad Rahbani's theatrical "novelization" of the Rahbanis' Lebanon
Conclusion: Beiteddine 2000 and beyond