Ordinary Egyptians
Subtitle: creating the modern nation through popular culture
By: Ziad Fahmy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780804772112; 9780804772129
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Nationalism; Popular culture; Egyptian National characteristics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colloquial Egyptian, media capitalism, and nationalism; title: Political centralization to cultural centralization; title: Print capitalism and the beginnings of colloquial mass culture, 1870-1882; title: New media : laughter, satire, and song, 1882-1908; title: Media capitalism : from mass culture to mass practice, 1907-1919; title: The Egyptian street : carnival, popular culture, and the 1919 revolution.