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16 sie 2024 · Nearly two decades after the genre’s inception, mahraganat finally broke free of its shackles… of being music designated for a particular class, or a people of specific background. Mahraganat was now the most desirable genre, played without reserve at weddings on the street and at the Four Seasons.
In late October 2020, Saied and Mohamed, were invited by a friend to attend a private house party featuring two of the Mahraganat heavyweights: Hassan Shakoush and Hamo Beka.
While Mahraganat has been viewed as a new phenomenon, there has been a long-standing history of Shaabi music that pre-dates the genre; from traditional Arabic ‘Mawaweel’ which gave birth to populist musical expression in the region, to the revolutionary duo Sheikh Imam and Ahmed Fouad Negm giving voice to the language of Egyptian streets ...
22 sie 2022 · One of the most popular mahraganat songs produced as a response to the uprising is “the people want five Egyptian pounds worth of phone credit.” However, a conflict of class, ethics, and freedom has swept over the mahraganat scene in recent years.
Mahraganat is a combination of working class popular Egyptian music played at weddings, EDM and hip-hop, with heavy autotune use. DJ Figo made the genre more well known with his team "set dyaba" released during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution .
29 sie 2019 · Perhaps remarkable was the scale of the attack on Hamo Beka, the well-known mahraganat singer, so why did the attack focus on Beka specifically? And what content do his songs carry? Hence, the paper attempts to review the formal positions of the parties concerned, whether the Department of Censorship of Artistic Works or the Syndicate of ...
6 sie 2022 · Mahraganat is a hugely popular music genre in Egypt - and the state wants to censor it. It’s seen by the authorities as a threat to moral standards and artists are being banned from performing.
