Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt

Name: Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt
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ISBN: 9780521484923

ISBN-10: 0521484928

ISBN-13: 9780521484923

Edition: 1996

Authors: Walter Armbrust, Meyer Fortes, Jack Goody, Edmund Leach, Stanley Tambiah

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This study of Egyptian popular culture provides fresh and vital insights into the long struggle of modern Egypt to define its identity. Armbrust examines Egyptian television, recorded music, the press, and the cinema. These popular media have broken radically with cultural icons of Egypts past, while offering ordinary people a way of coming to terms with the clashing values of nationalism, modernity, and Arab classicism. However, since the 1970s, popular culture has also become a subject of controversy. The delicate balance between conservative nationalist imagery and a modernist ethic has been increasingly put in question by producers and consumers of the media, reflecting a sense that the…

Book details

List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/28/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Note on transliteration



Introduction



"The White Flag"



The split vernacular



The gifted musician



Classic, clunker, national narrative



Popular commentary, real lives



"Vulgarity"


Notes


References


Index