Beschreibung:
Based on an award-winning thesis, this volume is a pioneering study of musical theatre and popular culture and its relation to the production of identity in Lebanon in the second half of the twentieth century.
Introduction 1. Baalbeck and the Rahbanis: Folklore 2. The Musical Theater of the Rahbani Brothers: Representation and the Formation of Subjectivities 3. Ziad Rahbani's Theatrical "Novelization" of the Rahbanis' Lebanon 4. Fairouz and/as the Nation. Conclusion: Beiteddine 2000 and Beyond. Appendix: The Musical Theater of the Rahbanis