Popular Dance and Music in Modern Egypt

Sherifa Zuhur is a research scholar, performer, author and contributing editor of 18 previous books. She held academic appointments at MIT, University of California, Berkeley, the American University in Cairo, and the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College. She lives in Berkeley, California.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction and Notes on Music and TransliterationOne. The ‘Awalim’s Path to the SalaTwo. From the Sala to the Silver Screen and BeyondThree. Ya Dall‘a, Ya Dall‘a: Demeanor and FlirtationFour. Mulid: Reinvigorating Spiritual and Popular Legitimacy in Egyptian Music and DanceFive. From Sha‘bi Music and Culture to Mahragan Dance MusicSix. Al-Raqs al-Sha‘bi wa al-Musiqa Sha‘biyya: Egypt’s Regional Particularist Dances and Music in TransitionSeven. Bad, Bad Baladi: Sama ­al-Masry and Dance as SarcasmEight. Globalization of Egyptian Dance GlossaryChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“Closes a multitude of holes in our understanding, eliminates the need to rely on colonialist wish-story...important, well-written chronicle”—Carolina Varga Dinicu a.k.a. “MOROCCO,” dancer/choreographer