Street sounds : listening to everyday life in modern Egypt /
Fahmy, Ziad
Street sounds : listening to everyday life in modern Egypt / Ziad Fahmy. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Historicizing Sounds and Soundscapes -- 1 Walking the City -- 2 Silencing the Streets -- 3 Roads and Tracks -- 4 The Soundscapes of Modernity -- 5 The Sounds of Weddings and Funerals -- 6 Sounding Out State Power -- CONCLUSION Class Distinction and Remembering Lost Sounds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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
9781503613041 (electronic book) 1503613046 (electronic book) (cloth) (paperback)
2000-2099
Outdoor sounds--Egypt.
Bruits extérieurs--Égypte.
HISTORY--Egypt (see also Ancient--Egypt)--Middle East
Civilization
Outdoor sounds
Egypt--Civilization--21st century.
Égypte--Civilisation--21e siècle.
Egypt
Electronic books.
DT107.826
932
Street sounds : listening to everyday life in modern Egypt / Ziad Fahmy. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Historicizing Sounds and Soundscapes -- 1 Walking the City -- 2 Silencing the Streets -- 3 Roads and Tracks -- 4 The Soundscapes of Modernity -- 5 The Sounds of Weddings and Funerals -- 6 Sounding Out State Power -- CONCLUSION Class Distinction and Remembering Lost Sounds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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
9781503613041 (electronic book) 1503613046 (electronic book) (cloth) (paperback)
2000-2099
Outdoor sounds--Egypt.
Bruits extérieurs--Égypte.
HISTORY--Egypt (see also Ancient--Egypt)--Middle East
Civilization
Outdoor sounds
Egypt--Civilization--21st century.
Égypte--Civilisation--21e siècle.
Egypt
Electronic books.
DT107.826
932