Elements of Social History of Popular Song in Algeria. Texts And Contexts
One of the peculiarities of music and songs in Algeria is that of having aroused very little interest in their origins, their use and their formal characteristics for native chroniclers and scholars before French colonization. In this study, we will spread out the variety of styles and modes of...
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Center of Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (CRASC)
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Turath |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.crasc.dz/index.php/turath/article/view/7 |
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| Summary: | One of the peculiarities of music and songs in Algeria is that of having aroused very little interest in their origins, their use and their formal characteristics for native chroniclers and scholars before French colonization.
In this study, we will spread out the variety of styles and modes of popular song in Algeria by considering a few examples drawn from this kind of popular art and social rituals based on circumstances or genres (satirical and parodic songs, for example). We will give both historical and documentary interest to “the café chantant”, to the emergence of the first great female performers at the end of the 19th century in Algeria. There is of course the whole tradition of protest and popular criticism which will weave its verses and refrains through all the regions of the deep country throughout the duration of the colonial presence.
This set of reminders which have related both to a journey over time and to a few expressions of popular song in Algeria cannot give the full range of the forms and circumstances of this expression, which is as variable as it is ephemeral in most of its formulations.
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| ISSN: | 2830-9863 2992-0698 |