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Liwa (music)

Līwa ( / ALA-LC: laywah) is a Khaleeji traditional dance of African origin performed in Eastern Arabia (Arab states of the Persian Gulf), mainly within communities of descendants of people from the

See also#

  • Fann At-Tanbura
  • Fijiri
  • Sawt (music)
  • Yowlah

References#

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20080203142429/http://www.arab.net/uae/ue_music.htm
  • http://www.alshindagah.com/may/dances.htm
  • Africans in the Persian Gulf
  • Video of Liwa in Kuwait
  • (en) Poul Rovsing Olsen, “La Musique Africaine dans le Golfe Persique”, Journal of the International Folk Music Council, Vol. 19, (1967), pp. 28–36
  • (fr) Maho Sebiane, « Le statut socio-économique de la pratique musicale aux Émirats arabes unis : la tradition du leiwah à Dubai », Chroniques yéménites, 14, Numéro 14, 2007 .
  • (fr) Maho Sebiane, “Entre l’Afrique et l’Arabie : les esprits de possession sawahili et leurs frontières”, Journal des africanistes, 84-2 2014, 48-79.
  • (en) Maho Sebiane, Beyond the leiwah of Eastern Arabia Structure of a possession rite in the longue durée, Música em Contexto, Brasília Nº. 1 (2017): 13-44
  • (fr) Maho Sebiane “Nuisances et chaos des Vents. Expressions de l’agressivité dans un rite de possession en Arabie orientale”, Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie 33, 2020: 113-131
  • Liwa and Tanbura from Africa to Bahrain, Part 2, Al Waqt newspaper, 21 Feb 2009
Genre family
Arabic music
Region
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, the African diaspora, the United Arab Emirates