Cassette Tapes and the Death of Taste in Modern Egyptian Music (Excerpt)
In this excerpt from Andrew Simon’s Media of the Masses, we learn how “lowly” cassette star and shaʿbi music pioneer Ahmad ʿAdawiya would give rise to the “death of taste” in Egyptian music.
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