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Chaabi is a traditional music of Algiers (Algeria), formalized by El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka.

Originally from the Casbah, the music known as chaabi belongs to a tradition of recent origin. It emerged during the 1930s, and has lost none of its power of attraction up to the present time.[1] Inspired by vocal traditions of Andalusi music, such as muwashshah, using its modes and rhythm. Chaabi means 'of the people', and it's very definitely the people's music, even in a country where Raï rules.[2]

A typical song features mournful, Arabic/Berber vocals, set against an orchestral backdrop of a dozen musicians, with violins and mandolins swelling and falling to a piano melody and the clap of percussion beats. Chaabi is part of a deeply conservative tradition and its lyrics often carrying a strong moral message.[citation needed]

At first Chaabi remained a scandalous genre, thriving behind closed doors or in specific locations called "Mahchachat" (cannabis dens),[3] where the admirer of this music would go to drink coffee, tea or smoke. By the late 1950s, however, it had become the people's music, played at weddings and religious festivals. Its main exponents included Oran based singer Lili Labassi [fr], El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka, the father of Chaabi, and Dahmane El Harrachi, composer of the classic tale of emigration Ya Rayah.[4]

In 2011, Safinez Bousbia directed a documentary on chaabi music. It took over seven years to make, facilitate and track the reunion of the Jewish and Muslim members of a chaabi group from colonial Algiers known as El Gusto.[5]

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EL HADJ EL ANKA LALLA ZHOR
3 years ago
9:44
EL HACHEMI GUEROUABI EL KAOUI
7 years ago
12:34
EL HADJ EL ANKA natleb rabi ihan alia (win saadi)
7 years ago
4:47
EL HADJ EL ANKA manaarefch wana sghiaar
7 years ago
5:06
EL HADJ EL ANKA arfad sabatek wamchi
7 years ago
6:16
EL HADJ EL ANKA Kenza
7 years ago
5:58
EL HADJ EL ANKA massbarni littihane ( sir ya naker lahssane )
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EL HADJ EL ANKA Ya Elli Moulouaa
7 years ago
6:06
EL HADJ EL ANKA Bardak
7 years ago
5:41
EL HADJ EL ANKA Rabi aal el mlih idabbar
7 years ago
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EL HADJ EL ANKA Ya El Hadi
7 years ago
7:11
EL HADJ EL ANKA Salah Bey (Kalou L3arab Kalou)
7 years ago
3:22
EL HADJ EL ANKA Ben Abderrahmane sidi
7 years ago
6:04
EL HADJ EL ANKA Hadjou Lebkar
7 years ago
5:22
EL HADJ EL ANKA Slahi
7 years ago
11:59
EL HADJ EL ANKA Mal Djafni
7 years ago
6:20
EL HADJ EL ANKA Ach Nouaci Ya Rabi ( ancienne version )
7 years ago
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EL HADJ EL ANKA Ya Sahbi
8 years ago
12:58
EL HADJ EL ANKA Ya Ahl Ezzine El Fassi
8 years ago
17:29
AMAR EZZAHI Ya Welfi + D3ani Ya Nadim
8 years ago
32:29
AMAR EZZAHI El Meknassia
8 years ago
9:36
AMAR EZZAHI Ya El Wecham
8 years ago
32:45
AMAR EZZAHI 3arasi
8 years ago
6:54
AMAR EZZAHI Sidi Ya Sidi
8 years ago
13:56
AMAR EZZAHI El Kaoui + El Hedi
8 years ago
12:59
AMAR EZZAHI Soltane El Ber Ou Lebhar مع فيديو من روائع خلق الله
8 years ago
16:17
KAMEL BOURDIB Ibrahim El Khallil ( ابراهيم الخليل (ع)
8 years ago
16:21
AMAR EZZAHI Adji Ya Nouah
8 years ago
4:24
MUSTAPHA SKANDRANI ( Le virtuose Du Piano ) Stikhbar Zidane
8 years ago
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MUSTAPHA SKANDRANI ( Le Virtuose Du Piano ) Touchia El Kamel
8 years ago