Technology and Women’s <i>Satr</i> : Gender Respectability in Music in 20th-Century Egypt

Beginning in the mid-1940s, superstar Layla Murad (1918–95) mobilized her contacts with the press and used her social capital as a respected artist to formulate and publicize her account of how her father and the entire family decided she would become a professional singer. Her accounts contradicted one another, as these three statements in 1946, 1948, and 1954, respectively.