Street Sounds - 9781503612013

Street SoundsListening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt\nAuthor(s): Ziad Fahmy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503612013, 978-1503612013\nSynopsis\nAs 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 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. \n\n Interweaving infrastructural, cult.