Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt Bestseller Dimensions: 12 x 8

Dimensions: 12 x 8

Frances Richard

Publisher: Nahla Tabbaa

as well as the strength and resilience which they had to muster to adapt to new realities

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Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt Bestseller Dimensions: 12 x 8As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologiesfrom trains, trams and automobiles to radios and loudspeakersfundamentally 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 mechanised and amplified sounds, but also the voices of street vendors, the music of wedding processions and even the traditional funerary wails.