Preface
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...
Bibliography
Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir is Associate Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a director at the United Nations Association of Singapore and was the recipient of the inaugural Western Sydney University International Alumni of the Year Award. He is the author of five books, including Globalized Muslim Youth in the Asia Pacific: Popular Culture in Singapore and Sydney.
Kamaludeen 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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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
*American Journal of Islam and Society*
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