Performing in/outside islam: Music and gendered cultural politics in the middle east and North Africa

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 212-232

  Lengel, Laura ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Islam; Middle east and North Africa region; Resistance; Sexuality; Women s music

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885520839     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1046293042000312742     Document Type: Article

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