When Art Is the Weapon: Culture and Resistance Confronting Violence in the Post-Uprisings Arab World

This articles explores the explosion of artistic production in the Arab world during the so-called Arab Spring. Focusing on music, poetry, theatre, and graffiti and related visual arts, I explore how these "do-it-yourself" scenes represent, at least potentially, a "return of the aura&...

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Published inReligions (Basel, Switzerland ) Vol. 6; no. 4; pp. 1277 - 1313
Main Author LeVine, Mark
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2015
Subjects
Arab Spring
Arts
Bildkonst
Culture
Humaniora och konst
Humanities
Konst
Political Science
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
revolutionary art
Revolutions
Samhällsvetenskap
Social Sciences
Statsvetenskap
Statsvetenskap (exklusive studier av offentlig förvaltning och globaliseringsstudier)
Tahrir Square
Violence
Visual Arts
Middle East
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Summary:This articles explores the explosion of artistic production in the Arab world during the so-called Arab Spring. Focusing on music, poetry, theatre, and graffiti and related visual arts, I explore how these "do-it-yourself" scenes represent, at least potentially, a "return of the aura" to the production of culture at the edge of social and political transformation. At the same time, the struggle to retain a revolutionary grounding in the wake of successful counter-revolutionary moves highlights the essentially "religious" grounding of "committed" art at the intersection of intense creativity and conflict across the Arab world.
ISSN:2077-1444
2077-1444
DOI:10.3390/rel6041277