Trade like Any Other

Name: Trade like Any Other
Brand: University of Texas Press
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Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt

Autor: Karin Niewkerk

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Texas Press

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In Egypt, singing and dancing are considered essential on happy occasions. Professional entertainers...

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Autor

Karin Niewkerk

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1995

strony

240

EAN

9780292787230

ISBN

0292787235

Enbook ID

04874074

Wydawca

University of Texas Press

Waga

388

Wymiary

156 x 227 x 15

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In Egypt, singing and dancing are considered essential on happy occasions. Professional entertainers often perform at weddings and other celebrations, and a host family's prestige rises with the number, expense, and fame of the entertainers they hire. Paradoxically, however, the entertainers themselves are often viewed as disreputable people and are accorded little prestige in Egyptian society.This paradox forms the starting point of Karin van Nieuwkerk's look at the Egyptian entertainment trade. She explores the lives of female performers and the reasons why work they regard as "a trade like any other" is considered disreputable in Egyptian society. In particular, she demonstrates that while male entertainers are often viewed as simply "making a living," female performers are almost always considered bad, seductive women engaged in dishonorable conduct. She traces this perception to the social definition of the female body as always and only sexual and enticing--a perception that stigmatizes women entertainers even as it simultaneously offers them a means of livelihood.

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