Mahraganat music ‘more dangerous than coronavirus’, says Egypt parliament spokesman – Middle East Monitor
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The Egyptian Music Syndicate has banned musicians performing the popular music genre Mahraganat, Arabic for festival.
Born out of Egypt’s slums, it was the first genre of music to deal with issues affecting poor Egyptians with tracks like “the people want five pounds of phone credit” going viral.
Mahraganat, which was formed in the early 2000s when wedding DJs combined chaabi folk music and electronic dance music with reggaeton, grime and rap, long preceded the revolution, but after 2011 the artists received greater exposure.