Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture

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UPC:
9780804772129
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
5/31/2011
Release Date:
5/31/2011
Author:
Ziad Fahmy
Language:
english
Edition:
1

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The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertainit 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 rapid politicization of the growing literate middle classes and brings the semi-literate and illiterate urban masses more fully into the historical narrative. It introduces the concept of media-capitalism, which expands the analysis of nationalism beyond print alone to incorporate audiovisual and performance media. It was through these various media that a collective camaraderie crossing class lines was formed and, as this book uncovers, an Egyptian national identity emerged.

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