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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mohamed Nasir, Kamaludeen Mohamed

Titel

Globalized Muslim Youth in the Asia Pacific : Popular Culture in Singapore and Sydney [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2016

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• "A sociological study of Muslim youth culture based on original ethnographic fieldwork in two global cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore and Sydney. Muslims in Singapore and Sydney face similar challenges, such as their minority status and low socio-economic position relative to the larger society. The challenges these young urban Muslims face in their everyday lives are complicated by their context within the broader processes of globalization that bring together the September 11th generation living in the Information Age. Comparing young Muslims living in secular, multicultural cities across three domains of popular culture--hip-hop music, tattooing, and cultural consumption--this study illuminates the range of attitudes and strategies they adopt to reconcile popular youth culture with piety"--
• "A sociological study of Muslim youth culture based on original ethnographic fieldwork in two global cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore and Sydney. Muslims in Singapore and Sydney face similar challenges, such as their minority status and low socio-economic position relative to the larger society. The challenges these young urban Muslims face in their everyday lives are complicated by their context within the broader processes of globalization that bring together the September 11th generation living in the Information Age. Comparing young Muslims living in secular, multicultural cities across three domains of popular culture--hip-hop music, tattooing, and cultural consumption--this study illuminates the range of attitudes and strategies they adopt to reconcile popular youth culture with piety"--
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Muslim youth culture, globalization, and piety -- Rethinking Muslim youth identities -- Nasyid, jihad and hip-hop -- Tattooing the Muslim youth body -- Youth resistance through cultural consumption.
• This book is a sociological study of Muslim youth culture in two global cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore and Sydney. Comparing young Muslims' participation in and reflections on various elements of popular culture, this study illuminates the range of attitudes and strategies they adopt to reconcile popular youth culture with piety.
• English