نص عبقري I loved it:) Ismail Al-Bahar The operetta shows the typical elements of a propagandistic performance in its scale, composition, lyrics, and even “choreography”. In its visual display we can see how the state deployed its resources to communicate a certain experience, that of the new liberated Arab states that managed to break the yoke of colonialism and is instituting a reign of peace and prosperity. The song can be compared to the similar propagandistic performances like the East is Red, in China or Moscow Nights in the Soviet Union around the same time. Such performances primarily aim at creating a certain “identity” to which all spectators strive to be and become. The authoritarian regime of Nasser understood propaganda in its true meaning and spectacular form. By listening to the song and watching its ‘performance’ citizens get to experience and assimilate what the ‘ideals’ that are worth ‘propagating’ are. This becomes very clear through the element of ‘spectacular performance’: hundreds of young women and men, marching back and forth across bridges that connect ‘different peoples’ and ‘different states’, hundreds of soldiers march across the background with their arms, while hundreds of other students, males and females march carrying flags of Arab states, with a full orchestra and choir adding another visual and sonoric layer
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:33:08 +0000
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