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- Title
Power and music in Cairo: Azbakiyya.
- Authors
MESTYAN, ADAM; Prokopovych, Markian
- Abstract
In this article, the origins of the modern metropolis are reconsidered, using the example of Cairo within its Ottoman and global context. I argue that Cairo's Azbakiyya Garden served as a central ground for fashioning a dynastic capital throughout the nineteenth century. This argument sheds new light on the politics of Khedive Ismail, who introduced a new state representation through urban planning and music theatre. The social history of music in Azbakiyya proves that, instead of functioning as an example of colonial division, Cairo encompassed competing conceptions of class, taste and power.
- Subjects
CAIRO (Egypt); EGYPT; GARDENS; URBAN planning &; culture; SOCIAL capital; POWER (Social sciences); MUSIC; ISMAIL, Khedive of Egypt, 1830-1895; 19TH century Egyptian history; HISTORY
- Publication
Urban History, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 4, p681
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926813000229