Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt Bestseller Publisher: Nahla Tabbaa

Publisher: Nahla Tabbaa

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

Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual convening of artists

Frances Richard

and a growing sense of alienation

Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt Bestseller Publisher: Nahla TabbaaAs 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.