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Her voice perfectly encapsulated what in Arabic tradition is known as tarab, the musical ecstasy described by the scholar Ali Jihad Racy in the following manner:
David Shasha: The Voice of Um Kulthum: A Place to Start the Dialogue 2010
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Her voice perfectly encapsulated what in Arabic tradition is known as tarab, the musical ecstasy described by the scholar Ali Jihad Racy in the following manner:
David Shasha: The Voice of Um Kulthum: A Place to Start the Dialogue 2010
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For a brief moment Sunday night, I experienced tarab.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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For a brief moment Sunday night, I experienced tarab.
Tarab 2007
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Danielson says it has to do with the Arab word tarab.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Danielson says it has to do with the Arab word tarab.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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There's music to satisfy every taste this week - from western classical, to Jazz, classical Arabic music (tarab), and hip hop.
iToot Stream 2010
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The album had four songs in the classical tarab style, art compositions whose aim is to bring about a shared experience of musical ecstasy (tarab) among listeners.
unknown title 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word tarab
tarab.ie says ""Tarab" (in Arabic) is a state of ecstasy and surrender one enters while listening, with body and soul, to music."
September 25, 2011
knitandpurl commented on the word tarab
"Outside, musicians, placard carriers, and guildsmen are jostling, intense crowd of a thousand hues, discrete voices intoning improvisations, each flowing autonomous, an effortless tarab, barely contained joy."
Talismano by Abdelwaheb Meddeb, translated by Jane Kuntz, p 124 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback
September 25, 2011