Cairo traffic: Sha'abi jam session from anti song ban Watch Video
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Description: http://www.afropop.org/explore/style_info/ID/6/Shaabi/:nAfter Egypt's demoralizing defeat by Israel in the 1967 war, new sounds developed in Cairo as young Egyptians sought ways to reaffirm themselves in a fast-paced, changing world. Internationally savvy, high-tech al jeel became the music of the educated, well-to-do youth. Meanwhile, in working-class neighborhoods, a brash new sound called shaabi, which means
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