Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt Bestseller the volume brings together writings

the volume brings together writings on visual arts printed and circulated in multiple ways

is not necessarily as simple as it sounds

Frances Richard

covering such large and diverse topics as relationships

and a growing sense of alienation

Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt Bestseller the volume brings together writingsAs 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.