Cairo Pop - 9780816689286

Cairo PopYouth Music in Contemporary Egypt\nAuthor(s): Daniel J. Gilman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816689286, 978-0816689286\nSynopsis\nCairo Pop is the first book to examine the dominant popular music of Egypt, shababiyya. Scorned or ignored by scholars and older Egyptians alike, shababiyya plays incessantly in Cairo, even while Egyptian youth joined in mass protests against their government, which eventually helped oust longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in early 2011. Living in Cairo at the time of the revolution, Daniel Gilman saw, and more importantly heard, the impact that popular music can have on culture and politics. Here he contributes a richly ethnographic analysis of the relationship between mass-mediated popular music, modernity, and nationalism in the Arab world.\n\nBefore Cairo Pop, most scholarship on the popular music of Egypt focused on musiqa al-?arab. Imme.