The Journey ofRai

Routes and Worlds of Transnational Art in the Mediterranean

Bibliographic Data

ID2155943
AuthorsGilles Suzanne (corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume18
Issue3
Pages379-387
Publication date2007-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757200701747427
OpenAlexW2011060528
LanguageEN
References cited10

The author traces the evolution of Rai from an example of local Algerian identity to a pan‐European phenomenon of world music. By following the trans‐national routes of Rai music, the author shows that the survival and prosperity of the genre rests on an extensive triple circulation: first, the circulation of diasporic colporteurs of this music who transport the musical products between the “here” and “there”. Second, the circulation of performers who perambulate, nourishing in this way Rai’s international dimension. And finally, those circulations handled by professionals connected through networks, who transfer music lists as well as technical knowledge. The study of Rai music thus permits us to describe the rapidly globalized expansion of a musical genre through the prism of its spatial development, and through the diverse levels of its progression. The study concludes that globalization proceeds as much from the “top‐down” as from the “bottom‐up”, sustained by a structuring network of trans‐national routes in an interplay between the local and the global

Aesthetics · Art · Circulation (fluid dynamics · Epistemology · Globalization · Identity (music · Literature · Musical · Phenomenon · Political science · Prosperity · Sociology · Structuring · Visual arts · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Law · North African History and Literature · Philosophy

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