"The Voice of Egypt"
Subtitle: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 19, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226136110
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Cultural studies; Folk music; Vocal music; Songs, Arabic; History and criticism; Music/Songbooks; Singers; Music; Egypt; Ethnomusicology; General; Genres & Styles - International; Music / Ethnomusicology; Umm Kulthum; Umm Kulthum,; 1898-1975; Biography; Popular Music
First sentence: Umm Kulthum was unquestionably the most famous singer in the twentieth-century Arab world.