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Author Gilman, Daniel J., 1978- author.

Title Cairo pop : youth music in contemporary Egypt / Daniel J. Gilman
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

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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
Music -- Social aspects -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 21st century
Popular culture -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 21st century
Music and youth -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Music and youth.
Music -- Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Popular music.
Egypt -- Cairo.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452942797
145294279X
9781452949260
1452949263