Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 244 p)
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ill., map
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0804772118
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0804772126
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9780804772112
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9780804772129
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Note on Transliteration; 1. Colloquial Egyptian, Media Capitalism, and Nationalism; 2. Political Centralization to Cultural Centralization; 3. Print Capitalism and the Beginnings of Colloquial Mass Culture, 1870-1882; 4. New Media: Laughter, Satire, and Song, 1882-1908; 5. Media Capitalism: From Mass Culture to Mass Practice, 1907-1919; 6. The Egyptian Street: Carnival, Popular Culture, and the 1919 Revolution; Conclusion; Appendix A: Urbanization and Infrastructure; Appendix B: Plays and Songs Composed by Sayyid Darwish from 1918 to 1919; Notes
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ReferencesIndex
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804772112
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ordinary Egyptians : Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture
Language:
English
