Regardless of your chosen style, I truly believe that if you call yourself a belly dancer, you need to explore the music and dance that makes the foundation of your fusion. I LOVE Middle Eastern music and can’t get enough of it – and it pains me to see so much of it left untouched by the fusion society of dancers. One of my personal goals is to share my music research with the rest of the American belly dance scene, so here ya go:
If you were to read one website cover to cover for dance and music education it would be:
If you were to listen *one* CD to introduce you to Classical Arabic music it should be:
If you were to research 4 famous Arabic singers and composers they would be:
- Oum Kalthoum
- Abdel Halim Hafez
- Fairuz
- Mohamed Abdel Wahab
If you were to read *one* book on Middle Eastern music it should be:
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And if you wanted to get hard core and study Middle Eastern music from an academic perspective, you should start with this package:
Go forth and fill your brain with Arabic and Middle Eastern music!