Raphael Cormack: Midnight in Cairo
Midnight in Cairo
Buch
- The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
- W. W. Norton & Company, 03/2021
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780393541137
- Bestellnummer: 10287797
- Umfang: 384 Seiten
- Gewicht: 666 g
- Maße: 241 x 163 mm
- Stärke: 30 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 9.3.2021
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
One of the world's most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and '30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourished, defining what it meant to be a "modern" Egyptian. Women came to dominate the Egyptian entertainment industry-as stars of the stage and screen but also as impresarias, entrepreneurs, owners, and promoters of a new and strikingly modern entertainment industry.Raphael Cormack unveils the rich histories of independent, enterprising women like vaudeville star Rose al-Youssef (who launched one of Cairo's most important newspapers); nightclub singer Mounira al-Mahdiyya (the first woman to lead an Egyptian theater company) and her great rival, Oum Kalthoum (still venerated for her soulful lyrics); and other fabulous female stars of the interwar period, a time marked by excess and unheard-of freedom of expression. Buffeted by crosswinds of colonialism and nationalism, conservatism and liberalism, "religious" and "secular" values, patriarchy and feminism, this new generation of celebrities offered a new vision for women in Egypt and throughout the Middle East.
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Raphael Cormack
Midnight in Cairo
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