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Posted on 03/02/2015 10:33:28 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
Why bother to listen to this music?
How can we come to understand these people in war, if we don't listen to them in peace?
They're on the other side of a divide from us—very high illiteracy rate, if a person who can't read sees a scrap of printed matter from a newpaper on the ground, they will pick it up in case it might be the Holy Quran.
Music has the ability to transcend this divide.
It's great music, one of its influences is Roman culture—this instrument, the Qunan, the name comes from Greek, "Canon", a ruler or tuning measuring rod. They have influenced us in return, in Spanish, Italian & Greek music. It's very easy to listen to, some of what they do is the best in the world.
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“Ahab the Ayrab” by Ray Stevens.
Bought a closeout stack of Greek rebetiko CDs. Some of them sound very Middle Eastern; if you said it was Egyptian I would believe it.
“Misirlou” by Dick Dale
Technically, has Greek origins, but became Arabisized and made it to Dick Dale through his Lebanese heritage.
A lot of Balkan music sounds like Arabic music.
...and a 2-stroke chainsaw!
I’m sorry. If Barry Manilow music didn’t cure the world of terrorism, Arabic music ain’t gonna do it.
Incorrect. There is a lot of Islamic music—especially from Iran, which has a very rich musical tradition. Much of the traditional Greek music was influenced by the Ottoman Empire when Greece was under Ottoman control for many years.
naaaahhhhhh
I love her version of MARCO POLO! I could listen to it over and over again.
Now that I think of it, I DO!
“She walks! She talks! She crawls on her belly like a reptile!...”
LITTLE EGYPT by THE COASTERS.
Somewhere I have a GIF of Little Egypt doing her dance. Somewhere.
I would rather slam my pe_ker in a car door.
1st. Neither one of the fools know a thing about music.
2nd. I carry myself better than they will ever carry a note.
3rd. They sound like a goat....A dying goat.
4th. You don’t swing your head side to side when singing, unless you can’t sing and you are making up the notes as you go along.
5th....Scmitar sounding man, on the string...Stop...You can’t match the sound of two cats getting it on.
Be a professional and pick up a snappy tune....
get a load of the original wacko yusuf islam aka [cat stevens] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoPEmyZx8hQ
Don’t. Because Arab music sounds like a garbage can full of beer bottles falling down an elevator shaft. I’d rather pierce my eardrums with safety pins.
The best coffee I ever had was a Lebanese concoction, along with babganoush....
I’m talking a Palestinian/Jordanian offering.
The chicken...there’s a big deifference between fowl & FOUL
Petite Jamilla is excellent!
I am, seriously, the complete opposite of a coffee snob... I would drink day old cold coffee filtered through Lena Dunham's pantyhose.
At least it isn’t Rap
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