Challenging the Narrative of “Arab Decline”: Independent Music as Traces of Alexandrian Futurity
This essay examines the lives and music of Alexandrian independent musicians to demonstrate how looking at the city’s independent music scene offers an alternative vision of Alexandria as a future-oriented city. With so much scholarly and popular focus on Alexandria’s past, how does looking at the c...
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| 出版年: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ema, |
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Égypte/Monde arabe
2018
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | This essay examines the lives and music of Alexandrian independent musicians to demonstrate how looking at the city’s independent music scene offers an alternative vision of Alexandria as a future-oriented city. With so much scholarly and popular focus on Alexandria’s past, how does looking at the city’s independent music scene challenge a decline narrative and present us with notions of a distinctly Alexandrian future? Drawing from approximately 24 months of ethnographic research conducted in Alexandria since 2010, as well as the work of feminist scholars Jill Dolan and Kathleen Stewart, it argues that independent musicking is a type of performance that allows many young Egyptians to feel traces of an alternative future in the present. |
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