Cairo pop : youth music in contemporary Egypt /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gilman, Daniel J., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Subjects:
2000 - 2099
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.
Musique populaire > Égypte > Le Caire > Histoire et critique.
Musique > Aspect social > Égypte > Le Caire > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Culture populaire > Égypte > Le Caire > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Musique et jeunesse > Égypte > Le Caire > Histoire > 21e siècle.
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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