Egyptian Belly Dance in Transition
Subtitle: The Raqs Sharqi Revolution, 1890-1930
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781476666747
Subjects: Dance; Egypt, social life and customs
Description: "Drawing on an array of sources, the author traces the early development of raqs sharqi in the context of contemporary trends in Egyptian arts and entertainment. The dance is revealed to be a hybrid cultural expression, emerging with the formation of Egyptian national identity at the end of the 19th century, when Egypt was occupied by the British"--