In doing so, I approach defining mahraganat, not as a unique conglomeration of pre-existing musical cultures (hip hop, shaʿ bī, electronic, electro-chaabi), but through its relational sounding in the world, citing Glissant, as an écho-monde and creolization. Through a close listening to the first thirty seconds of a 2017 mahragan (a singular mahraganat song), I argue that mahraganat is an écho-monde, an echo of the world in Relation, of the world echoing Egypt and vice-versa. In this condensed excerpt from my dissertation project, I explore the genre as a sonic manifestation of Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of Relation. In this peculiar moment, when much of life and work is suspended in diverse and difficult ways for people across the world, I am prompted to share a suspended and unfinished piece of writing about mahraganat, the genre doubly in suspension, although still very active, in Egypt. Two decreed pauses in cultural activity, the former ostensibly temporary and in response to a global health crisis, the latter seemingly permanent and reflecting the Egyptian culturati’s selective moral panic.
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Following Shaker’s decree, mahraganat musicians would not be able to obtain a license to perform, and any establishment found to be working with mahraganat singers would face legal action. The ban underlines that the music, in its lyrics and its essence, stands against the morals of Egyptian society. Just over a month earlier, on February 16 th, Hany Shaker of Egypt’s Musicians’ Syndicate issued a ban on the performance of mahraganat music in the public domain.
On March 17 th, Egypt suspended all cultural activities in response to the escalation of the coronavirus pandemic. William Faulkner’s work, Bob Marley’s song, the theories of Benoit Mendelbrot, are all échos-monde. These unities are not models but revealing échos-monde. In Relation analytic thought is led to construct unities whose interdependent variances jointly piece together the interactive totality. The only discernible stabilities in Relation have to do with the interdependence of the cycles operative there, how their corresponding patterns of movement are in tune.
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