Ordinary Egyptians : creating the modern nation through popular culture

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Label

Ordinary Egyptians : creating the modern nation through popular culture

Title remainder

creating the modern nation through popular culture

Statement of responsibility

Ziad Fahmy

Creator

• Fahmy, Ziad, (Ziad Adel)
• Fahmy, Ziad, (Ziad Adel)

Author

• Fahmy, Ziad, (Ziad Adel)
• Fahmy, Ziad, (Ziad Adel)

Subject

• Popular culture -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century
• Popular culture -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
• National characteristics, Egyptian -- History -- 19th century
• National characteristics, Egyptian -- History -- 20th century
• Nationalism -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century
• Nationalism -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertain--it 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

Cataloging source

MiAaPQ

Dewey number

962/.04

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DT70

LC item number

.F225 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography