Mazaher

Mazaher
Mazaher
Origin	Egypt
Genres	Zār
Members	Umm Sameh; Umm Hassan; Nour el Sabah;

Mazaher is an ensemble in which women play a leading role. The musicians of Mazaher, Umm Sameh, Umm Hassan, Nour el Sabah, are among the last remaining Zār (زار) practitioners in Egypt.^[1]

Zār is a community healing ritual of drumming and dancing whose tradition is carried on mainly by women (men have the secondary roles) and whose main participants are women.

A featured instrument in the Zār ritual is the tanbūra, a six-string lyre, which, like the Zār practice itself, exists in various forms in an area stretching across East Africa to the Arabian Peninsula.^[2] Other instruments are the mangour, a leather belt sewn with many goat hooves, and various percussion instruments.^[2]

References

^ "Egyptian ensemble channels mystic energy". Dawn. 7 May 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
^ ^a ^b Poché, Christian (2001). "Tanbūra". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. xxv (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. pp. 62–63.

External links

Mazaher at Egyptian Center for Culture and Art

[1] "Egyptian ensemble channels mystic energy". Dawn. 7 May 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-11.

[grove-2] Poché, Christian (2001). "Tanbūra". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. xxv (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. pp. 62–63.

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