@import url(/css/us/style1.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); @import url(/css/us/articles.css); @import url(/css/us/artHome1.css); Home Advanced Search IN free articles only all articles this publication Automotive Sports FindArticles Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine Spring 2003 Content provided in partnership with 10,000,000 articles Not found on any other search engine. Related Searches African music / Political aspects African music / Social aspects Musicians, African / Political activity Berbers / History ... Folk music / Social aspects Featured Titles for ALAN Review Afterimage American Drama American Music Teacher ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports An introduction to the music and history of the North African Berbers Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine Spring, 2003 by Banning Eyre Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. As music from North Africa and the Middle East has become more available internationally, the contributions of North Africa's first residents, the Berber, have been noticeably underrepresented. Many Berber musicians and people resent the fact that so much effort has gone into internationally promoting Afro-Arabic genres like rai and, to a lesser extent, shaabi, while Berber sounds remain largely unknown in world music circles. The subject is complex. One of the very first North African pop hits in Europe and the Middle East came in the 1970s from Algerian Berber pop singers Idir and Mila, with their song "Vara Inouva." Since then, contemporary Berber artists have been substantially missing in the flood of contemporary North African pop finding its way to the international marketplace. | |
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