03780nam 2200625Ia 450 991078940910332120230725031440.00-8047-7774-810.1515/9780804777742(CKB)2670000000095488(EBL)716549(OCoLC)731646858(MiAaPQ)EBC716549(DE-B1597)564039(DE-B1597)9780804777742(Au-PeEL)EBL716549(CaPaEBR)ebr10479238(OCoLC)1198930927(EXLCZ)99267000000009548820110106h20112011 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOrdinary Egyptians[electronic resource] creating the modern nation through popular culture /Ziad FahmyStanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20111 online resource (265 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-7211-8 0-8047-7212-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Note on Transliteration; 1. Colloquial Egyptian, Media Capitalism, and Nationalism; 2. Political Centralization to Cultural Centralization; 3. Print Capitalism and the Beginnings of Colloquial Mass Culture, 1870-1882; 4. New Media: Laughter, Satire, and Song, 1882-1908; 5. Media Capitalism: From Mass Culture to Mass Practice, 1907-1919; 6. The Egyptian Street: Carnival, Popular Culture, and the 1919 Revolution; Conclusion; Appendix A: Urbanization and Infrastructure; Appendix B: Plays and Songs Composed by Sayyid Darwish from 1918 to 1919; Notes; References; IndexThe 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.NationalismEgyptHistory19th centuryNationalismEgyptHistory20th centuryNational characteristics, EgyptianHistory19th centuryNational characteristics, EgyptianHistory20th centuryPopular cultureEgyptHistory19th centuryPopular cultureEgyptHistory20th centuryNationalismHistoryNationalismHistoryNational characteristics, EgyptianHistoryNational characteristics, EgyptianHistoryPopular cultureHistoryPopular cultureHistory962/.04Fahmy Ziad(Ziad Adel)1575165MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789409103321Ordinary Egyptians3851934UNINA