Raï Is Not Dead (2023)
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Simon Maisonobe
Self (Host) Hadj Sameer
Self Cheb Khaled
Self (archive footage) Cheb Hasni
Self (archive footage) Rachid Baba Ahmed
Self (archive footage) Cheikha Remitti
Self Boutaïba Seghir
Self (archive footage) Cheb Mami
Self Lotfi Attar
Season 1
2023
6 episodes
Season 1 of Raï Is Not Dead premiered on February 6, 2023
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.
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Keywords
- algeria
- north africa
- music documentary
- maghreb
- djazair
- raï music
- arab music