This new trend in oriental dance all over the world.... even if it's not "new" in Egypt at all.
Shaabi music is a progression/development of baladi music. Already there we find a fusion of traditional arabic instruments with european instruments, brought inside Egypt by the foreign visitors (British for example). Typical for baladi music are accordeon and saxofon, maybe sometimes you'll find even trumpet. As these instruments obviousely had a western setting, which uses major and minor scales, egyptian musicians had difficulties expressing themselves and their music on them, as arabic music is a complex system of maqamat which includes also quarter tones. Over the years these instruments were "converted" to the maqamat-system.
New music and art of expression was born - baladi - urban style - western-arabic music fusion.
As mentioned above, shaabi music is a further development of baladi and was kind of "modern pop music" in Egypt in the 1970. It's first and most popular representative is Ahmed Adaweya. Some of his famous songs you will know are "Salameta Um Hassan" or "Bint El Sultan" for example.
Shaabi was - and still is - means of communication for egyptian people, raising their voices above political matters, daily live, frustration, love.....
Other well known shaabi singer are Shaaban Abdel Rahim, Saad Soghayar or Mahmoud El Lithy.
Shaabi, typical Cairo neighborhood music AND dance. Egyptians love to celebrate and making party, they celebrate outside the houses, on the street, between one neighborhood and the other. They put on a stage with lots of colorful little lights, take some seats out, bring some tea and.... go with the music.... LOUD music... yallaaaaaa!
If there's a wedding or a moulid - doesn't matter - every occasion is welcome, to celebrate and to forget hardness of live for one evening.
Shaabi is danced by both - men and women. Depending on the traditions, maybe men and women in separate places or if it's close family circle, maybe all together. Doesn't matter... the most important thing is having fun and enjoying themselves. Shaabi is a simple, genuine dance, expressing happiness and joy - no particular tecnique necessary - have fun and keep going yay!
After revolution in Egypt, shaabi - music AND dance - changed. As it is an urban style popular dance, it is closely connected with every change of politics, way of live, economics, peoples satisfaction of their lives and so on.
Now "electric-shaabi" - mahraganat - is born in the poor popular neighborhoods of Cairo. Speaking as usual about politics, of being tired of the revolution, of banalities of daily live, about sex and love.
If before in shaabi music we found musicians playing, now most of the times, the musicians have been replaced by electric keyboards and computers and even during wedding parties often instead of the music band you'll find a DJ.
And here some videos of shaabi dancing in Egypt. As sayed, it's a popular dance directly from the streets in Cairo - so, it's little bit strange putting it on a stage. But as it's "modern" now in western dance world, everybody wants to copy it. In my eyes, also when putting a dance on a stage, the most important thing is to respect its origins, its genuine character and its soul - which is the most difficult of the dancers part.
Shaabi music is a progression/development of baladi music. Already there we find a fusion of traditional arabic instruments with european instruments, brought inside Egypt by the foreign visitors (British for example). Typical for baladi music are accordeon and saxofon, maybe sometimes you'll find even trumpet. As these instruments obviousely had a western setting, which uses major and minor scales, egyptian musicians had difficulties expressing themselves and their music on them, as arabic music is a complex system of maqamat which includes also quarter tones. Over the years these instruments were "converted" to the maqamat-system.
New music and art of expression was born - baladi - urban style - western-arabic music fusion.
As mentioned above, shaabi music is a further development of baladi and was kind of "modern pop music" in Egypt in the 1970. It's first and most popular representative is Ahmed Adaweya. Some of his famous songs you will know are "Salameta Um Hassan" or "Bint El Sultan" for example.
Shaabi was - and still is - means of communication for egyptian people, raising their voices above political matters, daily live, frustration, love.....
Other well known shaabi singer are Shaaban Abdel Rahim, Saad Soghayar or Mahmoud El Lithy.
Shaabi, typical Cairo neighborhood music AND dance. Egyptians love to celebrate and making party, they celebrate outside the houses, on the street, between one neighborhood and the other. They put on a stage with lots of colorful little lights, take some seats out, bring some tea and.... go with the music.... LOUD music... yallaaaaaa!
If there's a wedding or a moulid - doesn't matter - every occasion is welcome, to celebrate and to forget hardness of live for one evening.
Shaabi is danced by both - men and women. Depending on the traditions, maybe men and women in separate places or if it's close family circle, maybe all together. Doesn't matter... the most important thing is having fun and enjoying themselves. Shaabi is a simple, genuine dance, expressing happiness and joy - no particular tecnique necessary - have fun and keep going yay!
After revolution in Egypt, shaabi - music AND dance - changed. As it is an urban style popular dance, it is closely connected with every change of politics, way of live, economics, peoples satisfaction of their lives and so on.
Now "electric-shaabi" - mahraganat - is born in the poor popular neighborhoods of Cairo. Speaking as usual about politics, of being tired of the revolution, of banalities of daily live, about sex and love.
If before in shaabi music we found musicians playing, now most of the times, the musicians have been replaced by electric keyboards and computers and even during wedding parties often instead of the music band you'll find a DJ.
And here some videos of shaabi dancing in Egypt. As sayed, it's a popular dance directly from the streets in Cairo - so, it's little bit strange putting it on a stage. But as it's "modern" now in western dance world, everybody wants to copy it. In my eyes, also when putting a dance on a stage, the most important thing is to respect its origins, its genuine character and its soul - which is the most difficult of the dancers part.
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