Raï Is Not Dead

Die Geschichte

Inhaltsangabe auf Englisch

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.

Besetzung

H Hadj SameerSelf (Host) C Cheb KhaledSelf C Cheb HasniSelf (archive footage) R Rachid Baba AhmedSelf (archive footage) C Cheikha RemittiSelf (archive footage) B Boutaïba SeghirSelf C Cheb MamiSelf (archive footage) L Lotfi AttarSelf C Chaba FadelaSelf M Messaoud BellemouSelf C Cheb SahraouiSelf R Rachid TahaSelf (archive footage)

Weitere Besetzung ansehen

C Cheb BelloSelf F FaudelSelf (archive footage) S Safy BoutellaSelf C Cheb HamidSelf M Mohamed LamouriSelf B Belkacem BouteldjaSelf M Mokhtar BachiriSelf S Sofiane SaïdiSelf N Nordine StaïfiSelf R Rabah El MaghnaouiSelf C Cheb BilalSelf C Cheb AnouarSelf