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	Music of Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Iraq is known primarily for an instrument called the oud (similar to a lute) and a rebab (similar to a fiddle); its stars include Ahmed Mukhtar and the Assyrian Munir Bashir.
		Iraq has also produced a major pan-Arab pop star-in-exile in Kazem al Saher, whose songs include "Ladghat E-Hayya", which was banned for its racy lyrical content.
		One of the reasons for the predominance of Jewish instrumentalists in early 20th century Iraqi music was a prominent school for blind Jewish children, which was founded in the late 1920s.
	music-of-iraq.kiwiki.homeip.net (876 words)

	Jewish Role in Iraqi Music
		Musically, it was a difficult period in Iraq, as there were insufficient musicians, but the problem was initially solved by using graduates of the Institute of Fine Arts and by borrowing musicians from other Arab countries.
		In Iraq, their numbers had been sufficient to play to the millions of Iraqi people, but in Israel they found themselves limited to an audience of only tens of thousands - and an audience that is diminishing day by day, because the old are dying and the young are now accustomed to Israeli music.
		Music was part of their life, and they continued to play and sing to their last day.
	www.dangoor.com /72page42.html (1503 words)

	Anti-U.S. tunes big hits in Iraq - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		FALLUJAH, Iraq — America's next big battle may be waged in the cassette and CD players of Iraqis.
		Though the lyrics are contemporary, the music is based on a kind of centuries-old religious music called praising, which is influenced by an ancient form of Islamic mysticism called Sufism.
		The music succeeds by tapping into the rage of the nation's Sunni minority, who lost their privileged position because of the war and feel abused by Americans.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20040126-120106-7828r.htm (668 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Facing the Music On Iraq
		But there are key points on which to focus as premature war whoops from hawks and equally uninformed warnings of disaster from doves compete for your attention.
		Bush's new and determined focus on Iraq strips away much of the evasion and creative fiction deployed to justify inaction by officials in his father's administration after Operation Desert Storm, by Bill Clinton and company throughout eight disgraceful years and by Bush's own team in the first seven months of this presidency.
		The secretary of state also now seems not to be pushing his sanctions-streamlining effort as a way to stall or deflect military action against Iraq, but to set the stage for it.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A19019-2002Feb15?language=printer (756 words)

	Iraq - Photos, Maps, Videos, Flags, Facts, More -- National Geographic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Iraq occupies the ancient region of Mesopotamia, "land amidst the rivers," a fertile lowland created by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
		Iraq gained independence in 1932 as a monarchy, but a 1958 coup brought a series of military dictatorships.
		Iraq ended cooperation with UN weapons inspectors in 1998, creating concern that Iraq was again developing nuclear or chemical weapons.
	www3.nationalgeographic.com /places/countries/country_iraq.html (509 words)

	Electronic Iraq: Art, Music & Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But what was once a dream job has become a nightmare with the rise of Islamic extremists who say western music is unreligious and must be prohibited.
		Michael Moore calls Iraq in Fragments (the new film by the director of the award winning Gaza Strip) "Stunningly beautiful." The film makes is debut run in US theatres this month.
		Iraq In Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity.
	www.electroniciraq.net /news/artmusicculture.shtml (671 words)

	Iraq: National Geographic World Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For more than a thousand years, Iraq has been one of the great homes of Arab classical music; it is a legacy that is still proudly borne, despite the country's tragic recent history and the looming antimusic sentiments of Muslim fundamentalists.
		The famed late oud virtuoso Munir Bashir was born to an Assyrian father and a Kurdish mother; in the early and middle part of the 20th century, many prominent musicians came from the country's Jewish and Christian populations.
		Iraq's most recent international star is pop songster Kazem al Saher (whose first name is also commonly spelled "Kadem" or "Kathem").
	worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com /worldmusic/view/page.basic/country/content.country/iraq_635?fs=plasma.nationalgeographic.com (249 words)

	Music-Iraq - Site Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	www.iraq-outlook.com /Music-Iraq (63 words)

	The Iraq Generation \| Music For America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		it is on the ball)-- which is the wide agreement that the US is stuck in Iraq militarily for at least 5 years, and can't expect really substantial help from allies.
		I have said I think this generation of young Americans will be the Iraq generation.
		Music for America engages young people in politics through music communities.
	www.musicforamerica.org /node/19199 (177 words)

	Freemuse: Iraq: Traditional Iraqi music under threat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Famous across Iraq for their sea shanties, musicians in southern Iraq's Basra port, who have endured conflict and poverty under the 12 years of sanctions, are facing a new threat from Shia radicals who want to silence their instruments.
		The Iraqi musician Muhammad Salih said the Iraqi music style was a national treasure that should be preserved: "The Basra music style is the most wonderful in the area.
		The Iraqi music style in general is a national treasure that should be preserved," Salih said.
	www.freemuse.org /sw9404.asp (493 words)

	The New York Times > Arts > Music > Fighting Words
		If rock 'n' roll, the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Creedence Clearwater Revival, was the music of American service members in Vietnam, rap may become the defining pulse for the war in Iraq.
		It has emerged as a rare realm where soldiers and marines, hardly known for talking about their feelings, are voicing the full range of their emotions and reactions to war.
		Plenty of soldiers still listen to the twang of country music or the scream of heavy metal.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/02/20/arts/music/20dave.html?ex=1266642000&en=9a4f611a5c26bd77&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (911 words)

	Iraqi Pop Stars Plot Comeback
		December 15, 2003, 4:30 PM ET Iraqi pop stars, tainted by association with Saddam Hussein's rule, are slowly making a comeback, but, as in politics, it's the exiles who are hogging the limelight.
		Iraq once had dozens of young pop singers, but during the 1990s they had to sing the praises of the dictator, forcing many to flee abroad and others to give up altogether.
		Prominent singer Dawood Qaissi was so close to the ruling elite that he was gunned down in May, prompting many crooners to go into hiding while Washington set up a civilian administration and a governing council dominated by dissidents from abroad.
	billboard.com /bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2051991 (1065 words)

	The New Criterion — Iraq, Kosovo & other music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The real test of a composer’s durability is whether his music is played after he’s gone—when he is no longer available to coach, to bless, to take a bow.
		Those liner notes offer much musical explanation, and I have found—perhaps you have too—that the more music needs to be explained, intellectually, the worse it is. I remember one afternoon on which Daniel Barenboim, conducting some orchestra, delivered a lecture on a new piece that was longer than the piece itself.
		Yes, Davies abandoned those planets to issue “an unpremeditated and spontaneous reaction to the illegal invasion of Iraq.” (The words are again the composer’s.) I hasten to say that you don’t have to grant the composer his meaning, or intention.
	www.newcriterion.com /archives/24/09/iraq-kosovo-other-music (2708 words)

	Northern Iraq Hosts Music Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the Kurdish capital, Irbil, a national music festival is underway, celebrating the entire country's shared musical history.
		The festival is a bittersweet escape from Iraq's growing civil conflict.
		Roopak Abdlkader, 45, says the music reminds her of her childhood in Baghdad.
	voanews.com /english/2006-10-30-voa36.cfm (493 words)

	Soldier in Iraq Records Country Music Hit
		LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - His boots battered, his spirits sinking, Luke Stricklin struggled to explain his experiences in Iraq to his family and friends back home who kept asking him what it was like to fight in Baghdad.
		He kept on writing, entering lines on his laptop computer or jotting them down in a green waterproof Army-issue notebook he was required to carry while on patrols.
		Upon his return from Iraq four months ago, Stricklin started playing local shows in Fort Smith and before long was on his way to Nashville, Tenn., where he recorded a studio version of the song and his self-titled debut album, due out in September.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_music_073005,00.html (698 words)

	Electronic Iraq: Art, Music & Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Youssef Jabry, 32, is a singer who loves western music.
		It took Japanese filmmaker Takeharu Watai a year and a half to film 123 hours of footage in Iraq, which he managed to edit down to two unforgettable hours.
		Views expressed on this page may or may not be representative of Electronic Iraq or its founders.
	electroniciraq.net /news/artmusicculture.shtml (671 words)

	World Music Central - Smithsonian Folkways Releases Latest CD by Iraqi 'Ud Master Rahim Alhaj
		Raised in Baghdad, Iraq, AlHaj began playing the 'ud (related to the lute) at the age of nine and gave his first solo concert at 14.
		On When the Soul Is Settled: Music of Iraq, AlHaj tackles the musical form of maqam.
		When the Soul Is Settled: Music of Iraq also features detailed liner notes in English and Arabic, and new photos of AlHaj.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/2006111306505867 (297 words)

	village voice > music > After Saddam, The Music by Michael Freedberg
		Tarab is one of the least dramatic musical genres; Sahir's music, dramatic to the max.
		I've yet to find music as vital as these from any of Kurdistan's female singers—though ubiquitous Kurdistan heartthrob Natalia sings her version of Beirut pop in a husky contralto far fiercer than the genre's usual cuteness.
		Our own country, when we (hopefully) soon do what has to be done in Iraq, must not forget the Kurds: their courage, their difference, and the large expectations they have of what our friendship can mean to them—and to the future of Kurdish arts.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0311,freedberg,42472,22.html (1167 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 2 Utah Guardsmen bring music to Iraq
		Robertson said their musical duties are in addition to a security mission, with various guard duties throughout the post.
		After four years of teaching at Eastmont Middle School in Sandy, he took a job as a music teacher at an elementary school in the Buffalo, N.Y., area, and later earned a master's degree in music education from the State University of New York.
		Unfortunately, for security reasons, their friends and family can't attend while the graduates receive their honors, but the band plays the Iraq national anthem for them and then marches them off the field again.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,605155098,00.html (1198 words)

	AlterNet: War on Iraq: The Day Iraq's Music Died (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		What she found was a humanitarian disaster, but a still-flourishing culture of music and theater; when she went back to Baghdad just after the invasion to finish her recent book, "Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey Through Iraq," that culture was gone.
		And to show that Iraq was a secular, middle-class, educated society that is now, thanks to decades of American foreign policy and despotism and sanctions, etc., come close to becoming a failed terrorist state.
		Iraq was a police state, but not every aspect of the state was negative.
	www.alternet.org /waroniraq/38600 (2467 words)

	Music - Arts - Iraq - Middle East: 1940s late, bedouin music, arab music, buddhist chanting, elements humor
		Maqamat, a form of classical Arab music, is a kind of high-pitched, sophisticated Arab blues, accompanied by ‘ud, violins, and drums.
		From the late 1940s to the late 1970s tastes in music shifted from traditional Maqamat to a mix of Maqamat and songs based on lighter, more popular Arab music.
		Since the late 20th century, Bedouin music, songs, and dance have also been popular in Baghdad, owing to the rural background of the ruling elite.
	www.countriesquest.com /middle_east/iraq/arts/music.htm (372 words)

	Floridian: Iraq 'n' roll
		Music plays a role in soothing U.S. troops and in tormenting Iraqi insurgents.
		Whether to inspire soldiers, announce an attack or coerce surrender, music has been part of armies' arsenals for as long as battles have been waged.
		Metallica's music is as effective at making prisoners snap as it is at flushing out insurgents.
	sptimes.com /2004/11/21/Floridian/Iraq__n__roll.shtml (1541 words)

	Iraq Music Week At London University
		Iraq Music Week will be held from 19th - 23rd June at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies.
		Hessan Falih (Qanun, composer) was born in 1963 in Basra, in the South of Iraq.
		While He was in Iraq and working with many Iraq music group he recoded two cassettes and some sone for the wo Arabic TV satellites.
	mathaba.net /news/?x=538783 (700 words)

	FLASHPOINTS RADIO
		Today on Flashpoints: The United States military subpoenas a Flashpoints correspondent for her reporting on the case of Lieutenant Ehren Watada, the first commissioned US officer to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq.
		Iraq's puppet Prime Minister shifts the blame for domestic chaos from the Shia militias to the Sunni resistance, as the nation's Grand Ayatollah prepared to give his blessing to the latest US-backed coalition of Shias and Kurds
		As'ad Abu-Khalil discusses the US-Israeli undermining of Palestinian democracy and what this means in terms of regional politics and resistance; also, we broadcast the full interview with JR and death row prisoner Kevin Cooper, who has an upcoming hearing in San Francisco; and the Knight Report.
	www.flashpoints.net (2248 words)

	UNESCO.ORG \| Iraq
		Iraq has placed education at the heart of its cooperation with UNESCO.
		UNESCO’s Iraq office is temporarily sharing space with the UNESCO Office Amman in Jordan.
		Because of the recent conflicts in Iraq, the Organization is now focusing on safeguarding and reconstructing Iraq’s heritage.
	portal.unesco.org /geography/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2375&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (262 words)

	Art, Music & Culture: Iraq Uncensored (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For months on end, seven independent photographers and filmmakers have worked exclusively in Iraq documenting US troops and Iraqi civilians, resistance fighters and child laborers, imprisoned women and incarcerated youths.
		Using varied media and narrative styles ranging from photojournalism to first person narratives, cinema verite and found photography, Iraq Uncensored photographers present insights and subtleties beyond what daily news reporting can provide.
		There is a proposal for a group show exhibit by four independent photographers, 3 documentary filmmakers, and a writer/videographer who have been working exclusively in Iraq since before or shortly after the US invasion.
	electroniciraq.net /news/1711.shtml (436 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - World Music - On Location Iraq Audio
		He meets Qassim al-Sultan, one of Iraq's leading pop stars whose songs praise Saddam as a national hero.
		He also explores the wilder sounds of Iraq's little-known gypsy community, and searches the pirate record shops for CDs by Kenny Rogers.
		In the second show he hears Sufi trance music in Baghdad's most famous mosque, visits Baghdad's Voice of Youth FM station, and meets one of Iraq's top performers, Ilham Al-Madfai, who now lives in Jordan's capital Ammany.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/worldmusic/onlocation/iraq.shtml (107 words)

	Arab Music - Page 64 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Almost indispensable to the modern Arab ensemble, the violin in Arab music is customarily tuned to G, d, g, d'.
		In the urban music of Iraq, all of the above instruments are used.
		In the area extending through the Levant and Iraq, folk musical instruments tend to exhibit common features and performance characteristics.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /m151/Arab_Music2c.html (329 words)

	Iraq For You (Iraq4u) - Iraqi music, Maqam, Chalghi, largest collection of streaming audio, mp3
		Iraq For You (Iraq4u) - Iraqi music, Maqam, Chalghi, largest collection of streaming audio, mp3
		Since 1997 we have dedicated a lot of time and effort to our listeners to bring to them the most unique Iraqi music online.
		This page has been referenced in many occasions by media and music researchers and we continually enhance and add new audio clips from our special collections of wonderful Iraqi music.
	www.iraq4u.com /music_search.asp (94 words)

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