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currentmusicology-11633	Rubin, Jessie	Simon, Andrew. 2022. Media of The Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.	2023	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3147	117	45	Launching his investigation around cassette players (rather than cassettes themselves), Simon uses the photograph to contextualize Egypt’s changing economic landscape and growing consumer culture under Anwar Sadat’s infitah (Egypt’s economic opening, or ‘Open Door Policy’). In general, aside from electronics store owner Mansur ‘Abd al-’Al interviewed in Chapter 6, contemporary listeners and appreciators of sha’bi are absent from the narrative, and I think Simon’s compelling claims about the democratization of sound via cassette culture would have been strengthened with concrete interview material from the “working class, such as bus drivers and microbus drivers” who are described as enjoying the music (160).	cache/currentmusicology-11633.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-11633.txt