Definitions
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- noun music A kind of
Moroccan popular music . - noun music A
traditional style ofmusic ofAlgiers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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'Hum tum ek kamre main bandh hon, aur chaabi kho jaaye ...'
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These days, chaabi has been eclipsed by rai music, rap and Western pop.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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'Hum tum ek kamre main bandh hon, aur chaabi kho jaaye ...'
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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