"The Voice of Egypt"
Subtitle: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 5, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226136127
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Cultural studies; Folk music; Vocal music; Music; Music/Songbooks; Ethnomusicology; Genres & Styles - International; Music / Ethnomusicology; 1898-1975; Biography; Egypt; History and criticism; Popular music; Singers; Songs, Arabic; Umm Kulthum,
First sentence: Umm Kulthum was unquestionably the most famous singer in the twentieth-century Arab world.