Cairo pop : youth music in contemporary Egypt /
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 ma...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.