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Ordinary Egyptians : creating the modern nation through popular culture / Ziad Fahmy.
LIBRA DT70 .F225 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fahmy, Ziad (Ziad Adel), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Egypt--History--19th century.
- Nationalism.
- Nationalism--Egypt--History--20th century.
- National characteristics, Egyptian--History--19th century.
- National characteristics, Egyptian.
- National characteristics, Egyptian--History--20th century.
- Popular culture--Egypt--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Egypt--History--20th century.
- History.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Most accounts of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution against British rule attribute the effort to the European-educated elite and their abstract notions of freedom and nation, but Fahmy (modern Middle East history, Cornell U.) argues that in fact it was ordinary Egyptians who led the struggle with songs and other forms of popular culture in colloquial Egyptian. His topics include political centralization to cultural centralization, print capitalism and the beginnings of colloquial mass culture 1870-1882, new media 1882-1907, and from mass culture to mass practice 1907-1919. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Colloquial Egyptian, media capitalism, and nationalism
- Political centralization to cultural centralization
- Print capitalism and the beginnings of colloquial mass culture, 1870-1882
- New media : laughter, satire, and song, 1882-1908
- Media capitalism : from mass culture to mass practice, 1907-1919
- The Egyptian street : carnival, popular culture, and the 1919 revolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804772112
- 0804772118
- 9780804772129
- 0804772126
- OCLC:
- 692288486
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