The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century by Virginia Danielson

The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century

Virginia Danielson

288 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history music challenging informative slow-paced
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Umm Kulthum, the "voice of Egypt," was the most celebrated musical performer of the century in the Arab world. More than twenty years after her death, her devoted audience, drawn from all strata of Arab society, still numbers in the millions. Than...

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