Asmahan's Secrets Woman, War, and Song

Name: Asmahan's Secrets Woman, War, and Song
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ISBN: 9780292798076

ISBN-10: 0292798075

ISBN-13: 9780292798076

Edition: 2001

Authors: Sherifa Zuhur

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The great Arab singer Asmahan was the toast of Cairo song and cinema in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as World War II approached. She remained a figure of glamour and intrigue throughout her life and lives on today in legend as one of the shaping forces in the development of Egyptian popular culture. In this biography, author Sherifa Zuhur does a thorough study of the music and film of Asmahan and her historical setting. A Druze princess actually named Amal al-Atrash, Asmahan came from an important clan in the mountains of Syria but broke free from her traditional family background, left her husband, and became a public performer, a role frowned upon for women of the time. This unique…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 257
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Disentangling the Diva



A Child of Ma'ruf



To Quiet the Nightingale



The Triumph of Youth



Mission of War



Passion and Revenge from Jerusalem to the Road of Death



Asmahan's Musical Legacy



Culture, Politics, and Gender


Bibliography


Index