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Super Talk
« The Bad Girls in Arab Musics » - 75 à 90 ‘ - 2014
I wanted to give this name “The Bad Girls in Arab Musics” to this Super Talk to pay a tribute to these women that were, and still are, real taboo breakers. God or Allah know the dose of courage, determination and strength that was - and their is always - necessary for the triumph, over time, to their talent and to their femininity without a veil!
How these musicians have refused and still refuse, the taboos that the religion, the society, the family group would impose to them? How do they express their freedom? How do they react to the difficulties that affect their countries ?
And also because it is clear that in the West, in general, we do not make too much noise around Arab musics, except perhaps of Raï. In France and in Europe we live for decades, a glaring paradox: we are interested in Indian music, world music, the black American music, while we do not pay much attention in musics that are here with us or just on the other side of the Mediterranean sea. If we were to ask, at random, a number of people in the street, I doubt that we spontaneously give the name of some of the musicians among the most important, except perhaps Oum Kalthoum. Who cite the equivalent of a Miles Davis or a John Coltrane? Who will know Mohamed Abed Wahab, Munir Bachir, Asmahan and so many others? At this point of ignorance and lack of interest I can say that it is a "cultural segregation" ...
The topics I discuss in this Super Talk:
The major taboo : sing unveiled in front of men.
The role of the fathers : interdicteurs, falsifiers or permissive.
Three great figures of the past: Oum Kulthum (Egypt), Warda El Djezaïria (Algeria), Asmahan (Syria).
The popular and free art of the cheihkates: Cheickhat Rimitti (Algeria), Cheikhat Hadda Ouakki (Morocco).
Singers of Raï: Cheba Noura, Sheikha Rabia (Algeria)
The Body: the Guedra dance (South Algeria / Mauritania), the dancers accompanying Cheikhats : the belly dance.
Aesthetic rupture: Kamilya Jubran (Palestine).
The issue of the veil: Houria Abdellahab (writer and psychoanalyst - Morocco).
Presentations:
City of Fontaine (Switzerland) - The Source - The Bad Girls of Arabic Music + a concert by Kamilya Jubran - November 24, 2017
Orleans (France) - The Bouillon - The Bad Girls of Arabic Music - November 15, 2016
Lausanne (Switzerland) - Garden State - The Bad Girls of Arabic Music - July 05, 2016
Orléans - Université - November 15, 2016
Lausanne (Suisse) - Arche Pont Bessière - July 5, 2016
Montpellier - Domaine d’O - May 19, 2016
Alès - Cinéma - Festival Arabesques - March 13, 2016
Marseille - La Friche Belle de Mai - November 27, 2015
Paris - Maison des Mixités - Ni Putes Ni Soumises - July 8, 2015
Montpellier (France) - Arabesques Festival - Uni'Sons Association - May 14, 2015
Saint-Etienne - Cinéma La Grand Lux - May 2, 2015
Lyon (France) - House of Dance - March 3, 2015
Rouen (France) - The 106 - March 12, 2015
Tangier (Morocco) - Kasbah Museum - October 16, 2014
Paris (France), Gaite Lyrique - September 26, 2014
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