Full Description
In Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic, ordinary motion and emotion are treated as political when spectacular political movements like protests, strikes, or revolutions feel far away, forced, or otherwise impossible. Threading reflections from fans, rappers, DJs, producers, and venue owners, El Zein offers new insights into what it means politically to be moved by music.
Filling the Head challenges existing narratives that equate rap with popular political resistance against oppressive regimes. El Zein explores the political promise in artists' refusal to confine their lyrical or musical experimentation to an ethos of resistance.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Intro: Learning to Listen
Chapter 1: Revolting
Chapter 2: Istifzaz
Chapter 3: Listening
Chapter 4: Yearning
Outro: Politics in Motion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
