Cairo Pop
Subtitle: Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: Nov 01, 2014
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780816689286
Description: 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 massmediated popular music, modernity, and nationalism in the Arab world.
Notes: Source title: Cairo Pop: Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt