Description |
1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction: good music, bad music, and youth music -- 1. "My patience is short": youth talk about Grandpa's music -- 2. "Oh, my brown-skinned darling": sex, music, and Egyptian-ness -- 3. "The hardest thing to say": taxonomies of aesthetics -- 4. "A poem befitting of her": ambiguity and sincerity in revolutionary pop culture -- Epilogue: on the counter-revolution |
Summary |
Cairo Pop is the first book to examine shababiyya, the dominant popular music of Egypt that plays incessantly in Cairo, even while Egyptian youth joined in mass protests against their government. Daniel J. Gilman, who lived in Cairo at the time of the revolution, analyzes the relationship between massmediated popular music, modernity, and nationalism in the Arab world |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Popular music -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History and criticism
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Music -- Social aspects -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 21st century
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Popular culture -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 21st century
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Music and youth -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 21st century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Music and youth.
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Popular culture.
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Popular music.
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Egypt -- Cairo.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781452942797 |
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145294279X |
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9781452949260 |
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1452949263 |
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