Voicing Change. The Popular Subject of Protest Music in Revolutionary Cairo (2011-2013)

<span class="abs_content">Since the outbreak of protests in January 2011, arts have been central to the ongoing Egyptian revolution. In this article, I focus on protest music in Cairo in between 2011 and 2013 as a way to capture a specific interplay of popular culture and political e...

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Autor principal:	Valeria Dessì
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Publicado:	Coordinamento SIBA 2020
Materias:	egypt populism popular music protest revolution Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e7efc854e9094da6923bcc3a3867e6952021-11-21T15:11:41ZVoicing Change. The Popular Subject of Protest Music in Revolutionary Cairo (2011-2013)1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v13i1p232https://doaj.org/article/e7efc854e9094da6923bcc3a3867e6952020-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/21988https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">Since the outbreak of protests in January 2011, arts have been central to the ongoing Egyptian revolution. In this article, I focus on protest music in Cairo in between 2011 and 2013 as a way to capture a specific interplay of popular culture and political engagement. Through examples of popular protest music and chants, I unpack the cultural and political construction of el sha'ab (the people) as a process in flux throughout the ongoing protests. Performances of popular protest music and chants in the square voiced grievances and pride, built solidarity, and helped shape the ideal of a unified and leaderless collective "we" against the oppressive regime. Older and newly composed protest songs articulated a genealogy of the revolutionary popular subject that was at once cultural and political. The last section reflects on the post-2013 era, focusing on the different political genealogy deployed by the state to redirect the revolutionary "popular will" into an authoritarian project.</span><br />Valeria DessìCoordinamento SIBAarticleegyptpopulismpopular musicprotestrevolutionPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 232-255 (2020)
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description	<span class="abs_content">Since the outbreak of protests in January 2011, arts have been central to the ongoing Egyptian revolution. In this article, I focus on protest music in Cairo in between 2011 and 2013 as a way to capture a specific interplay of popular culture and political engagement. Through examples of popular protest music and chants, I unpack the cultural and political construction of el sha'ab (the people) as a process in flux throughout the ongoing protests. Performances of popular protest music and chants in the square voiced grievances and pride, built solidarity, and helped shape the ideal of a unified and leaderless collective "we" against the oppressive regime. Older and newly composed protest songs articulated a genealogy of the revolutionary popular subject that was at once cultural and political. The last section reflects on the post-2013 era, focusing on the different political genealogy deployed by the state to redirect the revolutionary "popular will" into an authoritarian project.</span><br />
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Voicing Change. The Popular Subject of Protest Music in Revolutionary Cairo (2011-2013)

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