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Can you recommend any really good music reflecting indigenous Egyptian musical traditions (ideally something that I can easily access from the web)? Posts: 4021 | From: Bay Area, CA | Registered: Mar 2007
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Best to ignore the slanderous nonsense. The kid obviously has no higher calling in his life other than obsessing over someone he's likely never met or is ever gonna meet.
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^^ "(someone he's likely never met or is ever gonna meet)" In other words a REAL Egyptian. Yes I agree. Posts: 26322 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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Son-jara, I don't know what you mean by indigenous music? Do you mean music of the rural Egyptians or more urban music like Sha'abi? Might you also mean religious music of Sufis and Copts?
If you have access to a University library Musicians of the Nile and the Music of Upper and Lower Egypt should give you a indication what indigenous Egyptian music is like.
______ More Nubian than saidi but still alot of processions in Upper Egypt take place with the sound of a tar and doulbek drum.
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^Thank you both KING and ausar, this is pretty much what I was after. What I meant by indigenous was 'rooted' in local tradition as opposed to urban or Arabic-influence.
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These music traditions are indigenous but some of the instruments are foreign. Especially indigenous is funerary and moulid music in rural Upper and Lower Egypt.
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Couldd be interesting were there ever someone interested in studying the music of the region NE Africa and Teh ME. An anthropologist might even be able to link music today to stuff mentioned somewhat back through time.
quote:Originally posted by ausar: These music traditions are indigenous but some of the instruments are foreign. Especially indigenous is funerary and moulid music in rural Upper and Lower Egypt.
This explains why much of the rural music from these areas possess a distinct sound compared to other music in the 'Middle East'. They don't sound exactly Arab, yet many Arab instruments are used.
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