Definitions

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  • noun music A kind of Moroccan popular music.
  • noun music A traditional style of music of Algiers.

Etymologies

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Arabic شعبي popular, folksy.

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Examples

  • One of the musicians is Abdel Hadi Halo, whose father, Hajj Mohammed Al-Anka, is widely known as the father of chaabi music.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Listeners with MTV attention spans may have a hard time with chaabi songs, which can go on for the better part of half an hour.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • 'Hum tum ek kamre main bandh hon, aur chaabi kho jaaye ...'

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • These days, chaabi has been eclipsed by rai music, rap and Western pop.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • 'Hum tum ek kamre main bandh hon, aur chaabi kho jaaye ...'

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • R Born and raised in Tunisia, MC Rai started out singing chaabi, the street pop of the Arabic world, and then a little more than a decade ago changed his sound to incorporate the rai music of neighboring Algeria.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • R Born and raised in Tunisia, MC Rai started out singing chaabi, the street pop of the Arabic world, and then a little more than a decade ago changed his sound to incorporate the rai music of neighboring Algeria.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • R Born and raised in Tunisia, MC Rai started out singing chaabi, the street pop of the Arabic world, and then a little more than a decade ago changed his sound to incorporate the rai music of neighboring Algeria.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • R Born and raised in Tunisia, MC Rai started out singing chaabi, the street pop of the Arabic world, and then a little more than a decade ago changed his sound to incorporate the rai music of neighboring Algeria.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • This concert came on Algeria's Independence Day weekend, and perhaps the older members of the audience were recalling the days of their youth, when chaabi - the "people's music"

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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