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| | Saudi Aramco World : Days of Song and Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Its opening night features the "Operette," a performance of music, folk dance, poetry and narrative recitation that involves a cast of hundreds; poets, writers and intellectuals illuminate nightly literary sessions; falconers, potters, weavers, traditional tailors, woodworkers and perfumers all participate in an artisan's village, and there are horse and camel races, too. |
 | | In Saudi Arabia, women's folk songs are most frequently heard at women's wedding parties, and thus remain an art by and for women. |
 | | Other formal performances of women's music occur at the request of a patron who hires a folk band for a private party in her home to entertain her family and women friends. |
| www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199901/days.of.song.and.dance.htm (3744 words) |
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