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Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Walter Armbrust

Cambridge University Press, 1996

This path-breaking study of Egyptian popular culture provides fresh and vital insights into the long struggle of modern Egypt to define its identity. Walter Armbrust examines Egyptian television, recorded music, the press, and the cinema, revealing the delicate balance between conservative nationalist imagery and a modernist ethic. However, this balance has been put in question both by producers and consumers of the media, reflecting a sense ...

Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond

University of California Press, 2000

Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communication and new dimensions of identity that affect economics, politics, aesthetics, and performance. Reflected in these essays is the fact that mass media ...

Middle Eastern Cities 1900-1950: Public Spaces and Public Spheres
Walter Armbrust, Christel Braae, ...

Aarhus Univ Pr, 2001

This volume elucidates the dramatic changes taking place in Middle Eastern cities during the first half of the 20th century - a period which, until now, has received very little attention when compared to the wide range of studies focusing on earlier periods and the present situation. During this period radical changes took place with the introduction of new public spheres and places - and with these a new society emerged. The focus of the ...