Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part I: Commercial, educational, government, and religious institutions 2. Negotiating Mass Media Interests and Heterogeneous Muslim Audiences in the Contemporary Social-Political Environment of Indonesia 3. Multiple Islams, Multiple Modernities: Art Cinema in between Nationhood and Everyday Islam in Bangladesh and Malaysia 4. Upgraded Piety and Pleasure: The New Middle Class and Islam in Indonesian Popular Culture Part II: Social processes of media production, circulation, and reception 5. Music, Islam, and the Commercial Media in Contemporary Indonesia 6. The Internet, Cyber-Religion, and Authority: The Case of the Indonesian Liberal Islam Network 7. "Sex Sells, or Does It?" Discourses of Sex and Sexuality in Popular Women’s Magazines in Contemporary Indonesia Part III: Islamic perspectives on film, music, and literature 8. (Un)framing Muslim Sexuality in Dina Zaman’s I Am Muslim 9. Sexing Islam: Religion and Contemporary Malaysian Cinema 10. Musical Modernity, Islamic Identity, and Arab Aesthetics in Arab-Indonesian Orkes Gambus 11. Music as a Medium for Communication, Unity, Education, and Dakwah Part IV: Representations, values, and meanings 12. Taking Liberties: Independent Filmmakers Representing the Tudung in Malaysia 13. Holy Matrimony? The Print Politics of Polygamy in Indonesia 14. Pop, Politics, and Piety: Nasyid Boy Band Music in Muslim Southeast Asia

About the Author

Andrew N. Weintraub is Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia’s Most Popular Music; Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java and co-editor of Music and Cultural Rights.