Midnight in Cairo (eBook)

The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s

Raphael Cormack (Autor)

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2021
368 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-54114-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A vibrant portrait of the talented and entrepreneurial women who defined an era in Cairo.One of the worlds 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 industryas 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 Cairos 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 25 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1920s • 1930s • 20th century • ART • Celebrity • Cultural revolution • Dance • Egyptian • Feminism • feminist • Film • History • Middle East • Modern • mounira al-mahdiyya • music • Nightlife • rose al-youssef • Theater • umm kalthoum • Women
• ISBN-10: 0-393-54114-2 / 0393541142
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-54114-4 / 9780393541144