2018 2018-06-14 10.17192/meta.2018.10.7587 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2018-192-75874 keine Angabe “Even if the Sons of Rum are not like Him” The Spatial and Temporal Journey of a Late 19th Century Egyptian Song https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 public -Frei abrufbar This paper follows the material and discursive circulation of the Egyptian popular song “Fī-l-Jihādiyya” as it traveled from the urban context to Upper Egypt throughout the 19th century. The song narrates the farewell of a mother to her son recruited to war, and her helpless attempt to save him. I explore how centuries-old local forms of mobility enacted by authors and performers intersected with the infrastructural changes in transportation under British colonization increasingly since the third quarter of the 19th century. Additionally, by reflecting on the long durée of the song’s circulation and performative replication, I investigate the continuities within the military social infrastructure throughout the century, and argue that the ongoing exploitation of Upper Egyptian soldiers helps explain the endurance of “Fī-l-Jihādiyya’s” social relevance. I thus provide a case for the study of material and social infrastructures as interrelated realms of analysis, specifically with respect to the different implications of the material and social mobilities that my analysis uncovers. 19th century army song popular culture transportation infrastructures mobility Egypt

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urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2018-192-75874 Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg 19th century This paper follows the material and discursive circulation of the Egyptian popular song “Fī-l-Jihādiyya” as it traveled from the urban context to Upper Egypt throughout the 19th century. The song narrates the farewell of a mother to her son recruited to war, and her helpless attempt to save him. I explore how centuries-old local forms of mobility enacted by authors and performers intersected with the infrastructural changes in transportation under British colonization increasingly since the third quarter of the 19th century. Additionally, by reflecting on the long durée of the song’s circulation and performative replication, I investigate the continuities within the military social infrastructure throughout the century, and argue that the ongoing exploitation of Upper Egyptian soldiers helps explain the endurance of “Fī-l-Jihādiyya’s” social relevance. I thus provide a case for the study of material and social infrastructures as interrelated realms of analysis, specifically with respect to the different implications of the material and social mobilities that my analysis uncovers. “Even if the Sons of Rum are not like Him” The Spatial and Temporal Journey of a Late 19th Century Egyptian Song army song popular culture 2018-06-14 transportation infrastructures mobility 2018-06-16 Egypt 2018-06-14 application/pdf Olga Verlato Verlato, Olga https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2018/192/cover.png PeriodicalPart Vol 10 (2018) 10 2018-06-14 2196-629X 2013 Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) Middle East - Topics + Arguments Periodical General history of Asia; Middle East https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/cover.png Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 2714728-9 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00030 Infrastructure 2018 application/pdf urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2018-1928 2018 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2018/192/7587/7587.png https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2018.10.7587 English article

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