Hair-Toss Extravaganza
Feb. 4th, 2009 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Back when I was doing a world music radio show at WGBH in Boston ("Caravan" - Greer Gilman picked out the name for me!), I got to know Kay Hardy Campbell, an American who studied Arabic in college (and, yes, probably because she watched the same hot Peter O'Toole movie we all did at an impressionable age) and, when her husband's business took him to Saudi Arabia, got to know a lot of Saudi women, was invited to their private parties, danced & played music with them as few foreigners have been able to. She brought some terrific Arab women's music onto my show, from tapes friends had given her, and showed me a verrry cool novel she was writing (which she has finally finished! yay!). (Kay was also the person who gave me the Egyptian Tourist Office LP containing the notorious "Take Me Back to Cairo," which I used to such good effect in my "Festival of Liberation: the Passover Story in World Music" radio special, for when the Hebrews in the Desert decided they'd justabout had enough....)
I just found her website, which includes lots of cool stuff - including upcoming workshops (and a reminder that she throws one heck of a Henna Party) . . . and this link to a video that will make you wish you had never cut your hair:
Hair Toss Extravaganza - Azizah Jalal singing "Sidi Ya Sayyid Saadatee"
This is filmed out in the desert - she sings at the end of two lines of young ladies with long hair...they toss it the entire song, occasionally going into the tricky 'figure eight' pattern of the Gulf.
I just found her website, which includes lots of cool stuff - including upcoming workshops (and a reminder that she throws one heck of a Henna Party) . . . and this link to a video that will make you wish you had never cut your hair:
Hair Toss Extravaganza - Azizah Jalal singing "Sidi Ya Sayyid Saadatee"
This is filmed out in the desert - she sings at the end of two lines of young ladies with long hair...they toss it the entire song, occasionally going into the tricky 'figure eight' pattern of the Gulf.
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Date: 2009-02-05 04:54 am (UTC)Watching the video now. :)
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Date: 2009-02-05 05:44 am (UTC)For something very different, and amazing, this Georgian sword dance fit into a fantasy story setting . . .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AqwY9XLAZA
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Date: 2009-02-05 05:57 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZFnME5l8WA
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Date: 2009-02-05 02:24 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2009-02-05 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-05 09:08 pm (UTC)Film: must see!
Take Me Back to Cairo
Date: 2009-02-05 04:13 pm (UTC)Here's a great YouTube version of "Take Me Back to Cairo". The original singer (featured here) is Karim Shukry. I believe his daughter put this music video together - lots of great shots from the 60's as well as today. What a song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6DIbQhFrGM
- Kay C.