Vassar College Digital Window @ Vassar Senior Capstone Projects 2015 Tarab to Tahrir: A Musicological Telling of Egypt’s Journey from Postcoloniality to Popular Rebellion Alexandra Prow Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/senior_capstone Recommended Citation Prow, Alexandra, "Tarab to Tahrir: A Musicological Telling of Egypt’s Journey from Postcoloniality to Popular Rebellion" (2015). Senior Capstone Projects. Paper 388. This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Window @ Vassar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of Digital Window @ Vassar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Tarab to Tahrir: A Musicological Telling of Egypt’s Journey from Postcoloniality to Popular Rebellion by Alexandra Prow First Reader: Professor Justin Patch Second Reader: Professor Kathryn Libin Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a major in the program in Music. May 5, 2015 Acknowledgements To the Faculty of the Music Department, thank you for supporting my overambitious scholarship and for providing me with the skills to articulate so fully the complexities and wonders of human expression. Skinner has been a home unlike any other. To Professor Kathryn Libin, thank you for your open door and endlessly patient guidance. I hope to one day hear music the way you do, for I imagine there is nothing more thoughtful or beautiful. To my parents, thank you for always asking about this thesis, even when it hasn’t quite made sense. (You can just skim it if you want and tell me I did a great job, I’ll never notice.) To my dear friends and housemates, thank you for the smiles in times of panic, the coffee in times of delirium, and the companionship in times of procrastination.