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Davideckstein7

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What is zaffah?
 
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What communal music-making did Moroccan women engage in during the wedding celebration described in WOM? How is the bendir played? What sound does the instrument produce that is the preferred aesthetics of both the Arab world and Africa?
 
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Answer to Question 1

 Another aspect of Arab weddings that adds to the excitement and the ritual is the zaffah, a procession where the new couple is literally danced or paraded into the public space.

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 Female friends of the bride serenade the bride with boisterous, cheering songs accompanied by their own playing of the bendir. . . .
 For most of the day and on into the evening the gathering of women . . . sang songs of passage and congratulations to the bride, accompanied by vigorous polyrhythmic playing of the bendir. . . .
 The bendir is held in one hand and supported with the other in a way that frees some of the fingers of each hand to strike the skin in various places, producing dumms and takks in a remarkable variety of timbres.
 Two or three strings pulled against the inside of the skin of the bendir act as snares causing the instrument to buzz when struck. Such buzzing is preferred both in the



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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