TY  - BOOK
AU  - van Nieuwkerk,Karin
TI  - A Trade like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt 
SN  - 9780292757103
U1  - 792.7082 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Belly dance music-Egypt
KW  - Belly dance
KW  - Women entertainers-Egypt-Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Transcription --; Introduction --; Female Entertainment In Nineteenth-Century Egypt --; Female Entertainment In The Twentieth Century --; Life Stories Of Female Entertainers --; Marginality --; Honor And Shame --; Gender --; Female Entertainers: Feminine And Masculine --; Conclusions --; Methodological Notes --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/787209
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292757103
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292757103/original
ER  -