Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt(English, Hardcover, Armbrust Walter)

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Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt(English, Hardcover, Armbrust Walter) is written by Armbrust Walter and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521481473 (ISBN 10) and 9780521481472 (ISBN 13).

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 Egypt's 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 representations of modernity do not reflect the experience of Egyptians.