Vai vs Rai - What's the difference?
vai | rai |
(linguistics) A verb animate intransitive: an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject.
A form of from Bedouin shepherds.
* 1991 March-April, David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg, "Rai Tide Rising" in Middle East Report no. 169, page 39 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0899-2851%28199103%2F04%29169%3C39%3ARTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5]:
* 1997': Karen Fog Olwig & Kirsten Hastrup, ''Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object — chapter 3: “Which world? On the diffusion of Algerian '''raï to the West” (by Marc Schade-Poulsen),
* 1999 : Marc Schade-Poulsen, Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Raï ,
* 2003 : Tullia Magrini, Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean — chapter 14: “‘And She Sang a New Song’: Gender and Music on the Sacred Landscapes of the Mediterranean” ,
* 2005 : Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade , p33: §2
As a verb vai
is to cry, weep.As a noun rai is
a member of an ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic group of nepal.vai
English
Alternative forms
* VAINoun
Coordinate terms
* vii * vta * vtiAnagrams
* English three-letter words ----rai
English
Noun
(-)- Rai arrives in the US, in some ways, as the latest rage to hit the World Music record bins, the result of a new post-modern global marketing strategy.
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- This chapter deals with raï' music from Algeria. Since its emergence in the late 1970s, '''raï''' has spread throughout the world and stands today as an exponent of “World Music”. The chapter traces a transnational process that has taken place in the 1980s: the diffusion of '''raï''' from the cabarets of Oran (the second largest city of Algeria) to the stereo racks in the West. It evokes the existence of different places and spaces for the consumption of ' raï .
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- In France, raï'’s lack of commercial success was thought to have been caused by hidden French racism and the subsequent de facto absence of '''raï''' on commercial radio and prime-time television. All in all, it did seem difficult to “sell an Arab” to a Western audience, as was the case, for example, with Cheb Mami’s U.S.-recorded album “Let me ' raï ”, released during the Gulf War.
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- The rise of raï' has paralleled the rise of Islamism in Algerian society, despite its mixing the male and female roles of musical production and consumption. Indeed, the paradox is at first glance perplexing because one might expect the critical message of '''raï''' to be anti-Islamist. The rhetoric of '''raï''', however, does not contradict the rise of Islamism in Algeria, and therefore it acquires the potential to complement religious fundamentalism. ' Raï and Islam do not so much occupy the same space as draw a cluster of public discussions and debates about gender into the same discourse (Schade-Poulsen 1996, 148–53; compare Bohlman 2000, 293–96).
- At least three conflicting varieties of Raï drifted in through the open doorway of the bus, blasting from cafés in the square.