What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.
- Status
- Ended
- Production
- ARTE, ZED
Keywords
- algeria
- north africa
- music documentary
- maghreb
- djazair
- raï music
- arab music
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Top Cast
Hadj Sameer as Self (Host)
Cheb Khaled as Self
Cheb Hasni as Self (archive footage)
Rachid Baba Ahmed as Self (archive footage)
Cheikha Remitti as Self (archive footage)
Boutaïba Seghir as Self
Cheb Mami as Self (archive footage)
Lotfi Attar as Self
Top Crew
Hadj Sameer · Creator, Writer
Simon Maisonobe · Creator, Director
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