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Although the popular music was limited to the genre of folk music that served the needs of ritual and social events varied, but the beginnings of a serious musical phenomenon began to form in Palestine with the presence of profound composers of the first generation, such as Augustin Lama, Yousef Khasho, Salvador Arnita and others. the second ...
The ataaba is one of many Palestinian folk music traditions that continues to be performed at weddings and festivals in Palestine, as well as by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] The ataaba and other forms of improvised poetry such as the mawwal and mijana have been used by Palestinians since the 1960s, "to express ...
Rim Banna (Arabic: ريم بنا; 8 December 1966 – 24 March 2018) was a Palestinian singer and composer who was most known for her modern interpretations of traditional Palestinian songs and poetry.
Zeinab Shaath was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1954 to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. Her parents had moved to Egypt in 1947 after her father accepted a job as an educator.
From pathos to praise of Hamas, songs written by musicians across the Middle East in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza are putting the Palestinian issue back at the forefront of Arab popular ...
Palestinian Dabke folk dance as performed by men. Dabke (Arabic: دبكة), is a folk dance that originates from the Levant. [13] It is popular in Palestinian culture and many other cultures in the Levant, and many troupes perform the dance throughout the world. The Dabke is marked by synchronized jumping, stamping, and movement, similar to tap ...
[2] [3] [4] While perceived to be an Israeli folk song, [2] British music journalist Norman Lebrecht stated that the melody of "Hevenu shalom aleichem" originated among Hasidic Jews in Romania. [4] The Hebrew-language text of the song was added to the traditional Hasidic melody by Jews in Palestine prior to the establishment of Israel in 1948. [2]
According to Youssef Ibrahim Yazbec, a Lebanese historian, journalist, and politician, [9] the dabke descends from Phoenician dances thousands of years old. [10] According to Palestinian folklorists Abdul-Latif Barghouthi and Awwad Sa'ud al-'Awwad, the dabke jumps may have originated in ancient Canaanite fertility rituals related to agriculture, chasing off evil spirits and protecting young ...