Author : Dhia Eddine Ben Youssef. The bendir is a frame drum originally founded and played in Maghreb countries. In a particular way, this instrument is almost employed in each phase of a Sufi musical performance.
Category: Ethnomusicology
Author : Anis Meddeb. This article seeks to understand the disappearance causes of some musical instruments throughout the History by studying the Guinbri in Tunisia. What seems very questionable and even very problematic in this study, is that the Guinbri has disappeared from the Tunisian music scene since the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Author : Bacim Mejri. In this article, we tried to highlight three genres of latin genres (tango, rumba and samba) influence on the modern egyptian music in the 20th century. We choose to analyze three works : “Ahwak“ and “Sahirtou minhou al-layali“ by Mohamed Abd al-Wahab and “Wayyak“ by Farid al-Atrach.
Author : Ahlem Hamed. This article studies issues related to socio-anthropological dimensions of musical practices in oral tradition. By asking the question about the nature of the relationship between “social” and “musical”, this study tries to reveal the reaction of traditional society.