Ordinary Egyptians : Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture.
The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertain--it created a nation. Songs, jokes, and satire, comedic sketches, plays, and poetry, all provided an opportunity for discussion and debate about national identity and an outlet for resistance to British and elite authority. This boo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertain--it created a nation. Songs, jokes, and satire, comedic sketches, plays, and poetry, all provided an opportunity for discussion and debate about national identity and an outlet for resistance to British and elite authority. This book examines how, from the 1870s until the eve of the 1919 revolution, popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity. Ordinary Egyptians shifts the typical focus of study away from the intellectual elite to understand the rap. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
Bibliografía: | ReferencesIndex. |
ISBN: | 9780804777742 0804777748 9780804772112 0804772118 |