Instrument of the Week
This week, we worked with the mawaal, the vocal version of a takseem. It can mean doing vocal runs around lyrics, or just improvising singing on an abstract phrase like "ya leyl ya ainy". It can be found in formal or folk music. The clip of Adeweya his mawaal starts at about 2 minutes in.
This week, we worked with the mawaal, the vocal version of a takseem. It can mean doing vocal runs around lyrics, or just improvising singing on an abstract phrase like "ya leyl ya ainy". It can be found in formal or folk music. The clip of Adeweya his mawaal starts at about 2 minutes in.
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Prop of the Week
This week covers a third way to use canes: beledi style. This is a style centered on Cairo, but full of down-home feeling. I'll write more about it when we get to talking about folkloric styles, but what to know about the use of cane is that it is typically borrowed from men, and reference men's style of beledi. This cane is more likely to have a crook and be thicker. It can be a playful bit of a woman dancing with a guy's cane for fun, or a case of bellydancers being able to do some gender bending because of their position as performers, for example, the men's hat and galabeya Fifi is wearing in the first clip of her.
This week covers a third way to use canes: beledi style. This is a style centered on Cairo, but full of down-home feeling. I'll write more about it when we get to talking about folkloric styles, but what to know about the use of cane is that it is typically borrowed from men, and reference men's style of beledi. This cane is more likely to have a crook and be thicker. It can be a playful bit of a woman dancing with a guy's cane for fun, or a case of bellydancers being able to do some gender bending because of their position as performers, for example, the men's hat and galabeya Fifi is wearing in the first clip of her.
| Naima Akef in a playful movie | Nany, at a professional show | Ranya has a DVD on Baladi |
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As "queen of baladi", Fifi Abdou gets a row of clips :) Notice how her band follows her in the 2nd one.
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