Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt

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Publisher	Stanford University Press
ISBN 10	1503613038
Book Format	Paperback
Book Description	As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies―from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers―fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets. The cacophony of everyday life grew louder, and the Egyptian press featured editorials calling for the regulation of not only mechanized and amplified sounds, but also the voices of street vendors, the music of wedding processions, and even the traditional funerary wails. Ziad Fahmy offers the first historical examination of the changing soundscapes of urban Egypt, highlighting the mundane sounds of street life, while "listening" to the voices of ordinary people as they struggle with state authorities for ownership of the streets. Interweaving infrastructural, cultural, and social history, Fahmy analyzes the sounds of modernity, using sounded sources as an analytical tool for examining the past. Street Sounds also reveals a political dimension of noise by demonstrating how the growing middle classes used sound to distinguish themselves from the Egyptian masses. This book contextualizes sound, layering historical analysis with a sensory dimension, bringing us closer to the Egyptian streets as lived and embodied by everyday people.
Language	English
Number of Pages	312 pages

ISBN 13	9781503613034
Author	Ziad Fahmy
Language	English
About the Author	Ziad Fahmy is Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History at Cornell University. He is the author of Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern National through Popular Culture (Stanford, 2011).
Publication Date	25 August 2020

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Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt

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