Raï Is Not Dead

Feb 06, 2023 (fr) Documentary [109] Min
  • First Air Date
    Feb 06, 2023
  • Production
    ARTE, ZED
  • Rotten tomato
    100%
  • Original title
    Raï Is Not Dead
  • Release
    Feb 06, 2023
  • fr
    -

Overview

What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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Casts

  1. Hadj Sameer

    Self (Host)

  2. Cheb Khaled

    Self

  3. Cheb Hasni

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Rachid Baba Ahmed

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Cheikha Remitti

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Boutaïba Seghir

    Self

  7. Cheb Mami

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Lotfi Attar

    Self

  9. Chaba Fadela

    Self

  10. Messaoud Bellemou

    Self

  11. Cheb Sahraoui

    Self

  12. Rachid Taha

    Self (archive footage)

  13. Cheb Bello

    Self

  14. Faudel

    Self (archive footage)

  15. Safy Boutella

    Self

  16. Cheb Hamid

    Self

  17. Mohamed Lamouri

    Self

  18. Belkacem Bouteldja

    Self

  19. Mokhtar Bachiri

    Self

  20. Sofiane Saïdi

    Self

  21. Nordine Staïfi

    Self

  22. Rabah El Maghnaoui

    Self

  23. Cheb Bilal

    Self

  24. Cheb Anouar

    Self

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 24 / Crews : 4

Season 1 ( 2023-02-06)

What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.

Episode 1

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Episode 2

Episode: 2

Episode 3

Episode: 3

Episode 4

Episode: 4

Episode 5

Episode: 5

Episode 6

Episode: 6
Feb 06, 2023 (fr)
Documentary
[109] Min
  • First Air Date Feb 06, 2023
  • Production
    ARTE, ZED
  • Rotten tomato 100%
Original Title Raï Is Not Dead
fr

Overview

What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer