Carolyn M Ramzy
Biographic Data
| ID | 231202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn M Ramzy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramzy |
| SIGNATURE | RAMZY C M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Heo, Angie, The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt
Repatriating an Egyptian Modernity: Transcriptions and the Rise of Coptic Women’s Song Activism
This chapter examines Coptic Orthodox music culture through a gendered lens. Specifically, it investigates how the repatriation of Coptic music transcriptions has facilitated women’s song activism in male-dominated contexts. Yet, as women increasingly sound their presence in the Coptic church, they are often complicit in some of the Church’s moral narratives in containing women’s bodies, voices, and comportment in the Orthodox community. While th…
Modern singing sons of the Pharaohs: Transcriptions and Orientalism in a Digital Coptic Music Collection
In 2009, the U.S. Library of Congress officially launched the Ragheb Moftah Collection, an online exhibit that presented the largest music archive of Coptic liturgical recordings and music transcriptions outside of Egypt. Moftah, an amateur Egyptian collector, had commissioned an English composer, Ernest Newlandsmith, to notate and record the entire Orthodox hymnody. They both believed that, as the last connection to a Pharaonic and pre-Islamic p…
Singing Heaven on Earth: Coptic Counterpublics and Popular Song at Egyptianmūlidfestivals
This article explores the performative politics of devotional soundscapes at Coptic Christian mūlid festivals. Echoing the state's reformist efforts in the 1990s to transform Muslim saint festivals into utilitarian spaces and their goers into "modern" Egyptian citizens, today the Coptic Church works to refashion these popular festivals from places of debauchery into morally productive spaces. Aided by affluent Cairene-based volunteers, church cho…
To Die is Gain: Singing a Heavenly Citizenship among Egypt's Coptic Christians
In January 2011, Egyptian protestors arrived to Tahrir Square wearing stickers reading 'a martyr is available here' to highlight their willingness to die for the revolution. Many Coptic Christians also arrived to their own demonstrations wearing the same sticker. Drawing on a biblical verse 'For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain', they claimed they came ready to die, not only for their nation, but also for their faith. In this article, …
To Die is Gain: Singing a Heavenly Citizenship among Egypt's Coptic Christians
In January 2011, Egyptian protestors arrived to Tahrir Square wearing stickers reading 'a martyr is available here' to highlight their willingness to die for the revolution. Many Coptic Christians also arrived to their own demonstrations wearing the same sticker. Drawing on a biblical verse 'For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain', they claimed they came ready to die, not only for their nation, but also for their faith. In this article, …
Singing Heaven on Earth: Coptic Counterpublics and Popular Song at Egyptianmūlidfestivals
This article explores the performative politics of devotional soundscapes at Coptic Christian mūlid festivals. Echoing the state's reformist efforts in the 1990s to transform Muslim saint festivals into utilitarian spaces and their goers into "modern" Egyptian citizens, today the Coptic Church works to refashion these popular festivals from places of debauchery into morally productive spaces. Aided by affluent Cairene-based volunteers, church cho…
To Die is Gain: Singing a Heavenly Citizenship among Egypt's Coptic Christians
In January 2011, Egyptian protestors arrived to Tahrir Square wearing stickers reading 'a martyr is available here' to highlight their willingness to die for the revolution. Many Coptic Christians also arrived to their own demonstrations wearing the same sticker. Drawing on a biblical verse 'For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain', they claimed they came ready to die, not only for their nation, but also for their faith. In this article, …
Modern singing sons of the Pharaohs: Transcriptions and Orientalism in a Digital Coptic Music Collection
In 2009, the U.S. Library of Congress officially launched the Ragheb Moftah Collection, an online exhibit that presented the largest music archive of Coptic liturgical recordings and music transcriptions outside of Egypt. Moftah, an amateur Egyptian collector, had commissioned an English composer, Ernest Newlandsmith, to notate and record the entire Orthodox hymnody. They both believed that, as the last connection to a Pharaonic and pre-Islamic p…
Singing Heaven on Earth: Coptic Counterpublics and Popular Song at Egyptianmūlidfestivals
This article explores the performative politics of devotional soundscapes at Coptic Christian mūlid festivals. Echoing the state's reformist efforts in the 1990s to transform Muslim saint festivals into utilitarian spaces and their goers into "modern" Egyptian citizens, today the Coptic Church works to refashion these popular festivals from places of debauchery into morally productive spaces. Aided by affluent Cairene-based volunteers, church cho…
Repatriating an Egyptian Modernity: Transcriptions and the Rise of Coptic Women’s Song Activism
This chapter examines Coptic Orthodox music culture through a gendered lens. Specifically, it investigates how the repatriation of Coptic music transcriptions has facilitated women’s song activism in male-dominated contexts. Yet, as women increasingly sound their presence in the Coptic church, they are often complicit in some of the Church’s moral narratives in containing women’s bodies, voices, and comportment in the Orthodox community. While th…
Heo, Angie, The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt
Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works)