Cairo Pop : Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt by Daniel J. Gilman
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Cairo Pop isthe first book to examine shababiyya, the dominant popular music of Egypt thatplays incessantly in Cairo, even while Egyptian youth joined in mass protestsagainst their government. Daniel J. Gilman, who lived in Cairo at the time ofthe revolution, analyzes the relationship between massmediated popular music,modernity, and nationalism in the Arab world.
