History

History is written in the changing circumstances of the present and, as Flaubert once wrote, travellers to Egypt rediscover more than they discover. It is with this in mind that I have prepared a list of related books rather than my own 'invented' history of a dance that is constantly changing.

Author	Date of Publication	Title	Publisher
Adorno, T	1991	The Culture Industry	Routledge
Ahmad, A	1995	Postcolonialism: What's in a name? (in: de la Campa et al, Late Imperial Culture)	Verso
Ahmad, A	1987	Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory' in: Social Text 17
Bhabha, H	1985	Signs taken for Wonders (in: Ashcroft et al, 1995, The Postcolonial Studies Reader)	Routledge
Bhabha, H	1994	The Location of Culture	Routledge
Blacking, J	1997	Some Problems in Theory and Method in the Study of Musical Change (in: Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 1:26)
Buonaventura, W	1984	Serpent of the Nile	Saqi Books
Carrier, J C	1992	Occidentalism: The World turned upside down (in: American Anthropologist)	:
Chaudhuri, S	1992	Preservation of the World's Music (in: Myers, Ethnomusicology: An Introduction)	Macmillan
Clifford, J	1998	The Predicament of Culture	Harvard University Press
Cohen, A	1982	Belonging	Manchester University Press
Geertz, C	1973	The Interpretation of Cultures	Hutchinson
Graham-Brown, S	1988	Images of Women	Quartet Books
Hanna, J L	1992	Dance (in: Myers, Ethnomusicology: An Introduction)	Macmillan
Hobsbawn and Ranger	1983	The Invention of Tradition	Cambridge University Press
Kartomi, M J	1981	The Process and Results of Musical Culture Contact (in: Ethnomusicology 25:2)
Mabro, J	1991	Veiled Half-Truths...Western Travellers' Preconceptions of Middle Eastern Women	I B Tauris
Mitchell, T	1988	Colonising Egypt	Cambridge University Press
Nettl, B	1985	The Western Impact on World Music: Change, adaptation and survival	Schirmer
van Nieuwkerk, K	1995	A Trade Like Any Other. Female singers and dancers in Egypt	University of Texas Press
Said, E	1978	Orientalism	Routledge
Said, E	1993	Culture and Imperialism	Chatto and Windus
Samuel, R	1994	Theatres of Memory	Verso
Shafik, V	1998	Arab Cinema - History and Cultural Identity	American University Press in Cairo
Shami, S	1990	Women in Arab Society	BERG/UNESCO
El-Shawan, S	1984	Traditional Arab Music Ensembles in Egypt since 1967 (in: Ethnomusicology 28:2)
Spencer, P	1985	The Society and the Dance	Cambridge University Press
Stokes, M	1992	The Arabesk Debate: Music and musicians in modern Turkey	Oxford University Press
Thomas, N	1994	Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government	Polity
Young, R J C	1995	Colonial Desire. Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race	Routledge