Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation

by Christopher Reed Stone

Book Overview

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.

In the aftermath of the departure of the French from Lebanon and the civil violence of 1958, the Rahbani brothers (Asi and Mansour) staged a series of folkloric musical theatrical extravaganzas at the annual Ba'labakk festival which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415781663
• ISBN13: 9780415781664
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"