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dc.contributor.authorStratton, Jon
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:40:36Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:40:36Z
dc.date.created2014-03-12T20:01:00Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationStratton, Jon. 2013. Rachid Taha and the Postcolonial Presence in French Popular Music. Performing Islam. 1 (2): pp. 185-206.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33998
dc.identifier.doi10.1386/pi.1.2.185_1
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This article considers the work of Rachid Taha from a postcolonial perspective. Taha is the most well-known French Algerian musician working in popular music in France and now has a considerable following in the anglophone world. The article is most concerned with the ways Taha's music expresses the experience of being identified as neither French nor Algerian while also feeling that both heritages are central to his identify as a Beur. The article focuses specifically on an understanding of Taha's work in terms of metissage, hybridity. Taha's first group was Carte de Sejour. Starting from a track on their first album, Rhorhomanie, which uses phrases from Arabic, French and English, the article goes on to examine examples of recordings where Taha has offered a revisioning of already well-know songs: Carte de Sejour's version of Charles Trenets 'Douce France'/'Sweet France', Taha's version of Dahmane el Harrchie's 'Ya Rayah' and, finally, Taha's version of the Clash's 'Rock the Casbah'.

dc.publisherIntellect
dc.subjectpostcolonial
dc.subjectBeurs
dc.subjecthybridity
dc.subjectCarte de Sejour
dc.subjectRachid Taha
dc.subjectAlgeria
dc.titleRachid Taha and the Postcolonial Presence in French Popular Music
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume1
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage185
dcterms.source.endPage206
dcterms.source.issn20431015
dcterms.source.titlePerforming Islam
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NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work in which changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication.

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