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Autotuned Belonging: coptic popular song and the politics of Neo-Pentecostal pedagogies Carolyn Ramzy

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ethonomusicology ; Volume 60, number 3,Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press; 2016Content type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: Maher Fayez is arguably the most famous Christian televangelist in Egypt, appearing in a vibrant satellite and digital ministry online where he sings the popular genre of Coptic Christian songs, taratīl. As his performances largely depend on the mediated and Auto-Tuned voice, I investigate how Fayez’s use of an electronicized and cyber ministry merges both visual and auditory sensibilities to help his audiences attune to Christian and ‘alternative modernities.’ How does his use of global neo-Pentecostal pedagogies and popular music technologies contest Coptic Orthodox Church authority? More importantly, how do they negotiate various modes of Egyptian Christian-belonging following the January 25, 2011 Uprising?
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Journal Article Journal Article Main Library - Special Collections ML128.E8 KOS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Vol 60, No. 3 (pages 434-458) SP26291 Not for loan For in-house use only

Maher Fayez is arguably the most famous Christian televangelist in Egypt, appearing in a vibrant satellite and digital ministry online where he sings the popular genre of Coptic Christian songs, taratīl. As his performances largely depend on the mediated and Auto-Tuned voice, I investigate how Fayez’s use of an electronicized and cyber ministry merges both visual and auditory sensibilities to help his audiences attune to Christian and ‘alternative modernities.’ How does his use of global neo-Pentecostal pedagogies and popular music technologies contest Coptic Orthodox Church authority? More importantly, how do they negotiate various modes of Egyptian Christian-belonging following the January 25, 2011 Uprising?

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