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Media of the masses : cassette culture in modern Egypt

Title
Media of the masses : cassette culture in modern Egypt / Andrew Simon.
Author
Simon, Andrew (Andrew G.)
Publication
  • Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Description
xiii, 279 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology--the cassette tape--to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Audiocassette technology gave an opening to ordinary individuals, from singers to smugglers, to challenge state-controlled Egyptian media. Enabling an unprecedented number of people to participate in the creation of culture and circulation of content, cassette players and tapes soon informed broader cultural, political, and economic developments and defined "modern" Egyptian households. Drawing on a wide array of audio, visual, and textual sources that exist outside the Egyptian National Archives, Andrew Simon provides a new entry point into understanding everyday life and culture. Cassettes and cassette players, he demonstrates, did not simply join other twentieth century mass media, like records and radio; they were the media of the masses. Comprised of little more than magnetic reels in plastic cases, cassettes empowered cultural consumers to become cultural producers long before the advent of the Internet. Positioned at the productive crossroads of social history, cultural anthropology, and media and sound studies, Media of the Masses ultimately shows how the most ordinary things may yield the most surprising insights"--
Series Statement
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Uniform Title
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index.
Contents
Selling : leisure, consumer culture, and material terrains -- Desiring : theft, smuggling, and the limits of the law -- Censuring : tapes, taste, and the creation of Egyptian culture -- Copying : piracy, cultural content, and sonorous circuits -- Subverting : Shaykh Imam, official stories, and counterhistories -- Archiving : microhistory and material traces of tapes past.
Call Number
*LE 23-480
ISBN
  • 9781503629431
  • 1503629430
  • 9781503631441
  • 1503631443
  • 9781503631458 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2021054255
OCLC
1261879823
Author
Simon, Andrew (Andrew G.), author.
Title
Media of the masses : cassette culture in modern Egypt / Andrew Simon.
Publisher
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Form:
Online version: Simon, Andrew (Andrew G.). Media of the masses. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022] 9781503631458 (DLC) 2021054256 (OCoLC)1286070371
Research Call Number
*LE 23-480
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