Tag Archives: Umm Kulthum Plagiarism in Hindi Film Music: Is Imitation the Most Sincere Form of Flattery? Posted on August 24, 2012 13 Music directors in the Bollywood industry today are often accused of plagiarizing songs without giving proper credit to the original sources. Pritam ...
Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer whose performances mesmerized Arab audiences from the Persian Gulf to Morocco for half a century. She was one of the most famous Arab singers and public personalities of the 20th century. Learn more about Umm Kulthum’s life
Umm Kulthum was then eight years old, and her command of literary Arabic and the tawashih - religious songs of the life of the Prophet - soon drew attention throughout the area. In rural areas at that time, there was an automatic stigma attached to any woman who sang in public, and ...
Umm Kulthūm’s father was a villageimamwho sang traditional religious songs at weddings and holidays to make ends meet. She learned to sing from him, and, when he noticed the strength of her voice, he began taking her with him, dressed as a boy to avoid the opprobrium of displaying a ...
Written byVirginia L. Danielson, Richard F. French Librarian, Loeb Music Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of“The Voice of Egypt”: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century. ...