Status Updates From Cairo Pop: Youth Music in C...

isn’t it funny that my prof gave this book to me a year ago for a class project but then covid happened and she moved to canada and she let me keep it but i gave my copy away because i would never read it and now i have to read it for a different class so i had to find an ebook online. how the turns table

The first half of this book was interesting, in large part due to how the author discussed his use of etymology in relation to Egyptian music and his discussion of the realm of Arabic music and the shift of interest from the great Umm Kulthoum to today's Arabic Pop.

His discussion of politics, however, was far less on point, and his 'Counterrevolution' epilogue wholly unnecessary.