Une sélection d’anthologie, regroupée sur une compilation intitulé 1970’s Algerian Proto-Raï Underground documente la genèse du raï dans l’urbanité de l’Algérie fraîchement indépendante. Compilation ...

The recent death of French Algerian superstar Rachid Taha brought to mind the musical genre called raï, so I decided to feature it this week by highlighting a few raï artists.… It’s not hard to ...

Rai, an Algerian musical genre newly registered by the UN agency as part of the world's 'intangible cultural heritage', has accompanied the country's social changes for a century Cheb Khaled played a ...

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L’écrivain spécialiste du patrimoine, Mohamed Benziane, a souligné dans son intervention - axée sur les différentes étapes historiques de l’émergence du Raï – que "la principale caractéristique du Raï ...

Every bit the people's music as much as punk or hip-hop, raï has been flourishing for decades, even after post-colonial Marxist governments pushed it underground. Sublime Frequencies' vinyl-only ...