Street Sounds

Street Sounds
Author: Ziad Fahmy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1503613046

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.

Happenings and Other Acts

Happenings and Other Acts
Author: Mariellen Sandford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134857810

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Yet Again

Yet Again
Author: Max Beerbohm
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-02-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

"Till I gave myself the task of making a little selection from what I had written since last I formed a book of essays; I had no notion that I had put; as it were; my eggs into so many baskets—The Saturday Review; The New Quarterly; The New Liberal Review; Vanity Fair; The Daily Mail; Literature; The Traveller; The Pall Mall Magazine; The May Book; The Souvenir Book of Charing Cross Hospital Bazaar; The Cornhill Magazine; Harper's Magazine; and The Anglo-Saxon Review...Ouf! But the sigh of relief that I heave at the end of the list is accompanied by a smile of thanks to the various authorities for letting me use here what they were so good as to require." -Preface Yet Again by Max Beerbohm: Experience the wit and brilliance of Max Beerbohm's essays in "Yet Again." Known for his literary and art criticism, Beerbohm's collection presents a delightful array of essays on a variety of subjects. With his sharp humor and incisive observations, Beerbohm charms readers as he delves into literature, society, and the quirks of human behavior. Key Aspects of the Book "Yet Again": Humorous Essays: The book offers a collection of humorous and witty essays, showcasing Beerbohm's distinctive style of satire and commentary. Literary Criticism: "Yet Again" features Beerbohm's perceptive insights into literature and the works of renowned authors. Reflections on Society: The essays delve into societal norms and behaviors, inviting readers to ponder the idiosyncrasies of human nature. Max Beerbohm was a renowned English essayist, caricaturist, and critic. In "Yet Again," Beerbohm exhibits his mastery of wit and satire, leaving a lasting impression on readers with his keen observations of human foibles.

Wayfinding and Navigation: Strengths and Weaknesses in Atypical and Clinical Populations

Wayfinding and Navigation: Strengths and Weaknesses in Atypical and Clinical Populations
Author: Chiara Meneghetti
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-12-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2889661881

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound
Author: Holger Schulze
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1501335421

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in this interdisciplinary area of sound studies: it propels each main chapter of this handbook into a thoroughly different world of listening, experiencing, receiving, sensing, dreaming, naming, desiring, and crafting sound. This handbook is composed of six sections: sonic artifacts; sounds and the body; habitat and sound; sonic desires; sounds and machines; and overarching sensologies. The individual chapters explore exemplary research objects and put them in the context of methodological approaches, historical predecessors, research practices, and contemporary research gaps. This volume offers therefore one of the broadest, most detailed, and instructive overviews on current research in this area of sensory anthropology.

City of Noise

City of Noise
Author: Aimee Boutin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0252097262

Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the bourgeois with its distinctive sounds. Street vendors bellowed songs known as the Cris de Paris that had been associated with their trades since the Middle Ages; musicians itinerant and otherwise played for change; and flâneurs-writers, fascinated with the city's underside, listened and recorded much about what they heard. Aimée Boutin tours the sonic space that orchestrated the different, often conflicting sound cultures that defined the street ambience of Paris. Mining accounts that range from guidebooks to verse, Boutin braids literary, cultural, and social history to reconstruct a lost auditory environment. Throughout, impressions of street noise shape writers' sense of place and perception of modern social relations. As Boutin shows, the din of the Cris contrasted economic abundance with the disparities of the capital, old and new traditions, and the vibrancy of street commerce with an increasing bourgeois demand for quiet. In time, peddlers who provided the soundtrack for Paris's narrow streets yielded to modernity, with its taciturn shopkeepers and wide-open boulevards, and the fading songs of the Cris became a dirge for the passing of old ways.

Theatre Sound

Theatre Sound
Author: John A. Leonard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2001-06-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136746498

Theatre Sound includes a brief history of the use of sound in the theatre, discussions of musicals, sound effects, and the recording studio, and even an introduction to the physics and math of sound design. A bibliography and online reference section make this the new essential work for students of theatre and practicing sound designers.

Hip Hop in The Sticks: A Deepening Con/Text

Hip Hop in The Sticks: A Deepening Con/Text
Author: Dr Adam de Paor-Evans
Publisher: Squagle House/Rhythm Obscura
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2023-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 139995380X

Via memory, material objects, music, people and place, Hip Hop In The Sticks picks up where Scratching the Surface left off. Through the eyes of an adolescent rural hip hop head, questions of identity, heritage and one’s own location in the world emerge through rich lived experience. Often idiosyncratic, humorously dry, and underpinned by comprehensive and informative endnotes, Hip Hop In The Sticks presents a deep non-fiction contextual narrative, intersecting family secrets, a different sense of community and kinship, embryonic hip hop and graffiti practice. Hip Hop In The Sticks makes visible a different account of life in late 1980s rural Britain and an alternative version of hip hop history.

Yet Again

Yet Again
Author: Sir Max Beerbohm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1909
Genre:
ISBN:

Essays first published in various periodicals.