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sectionRadood [79c71f4d]

Part of shia rituals

  • Radood notes, March 24th, 2022 - Shia center for Karabala Studies

    • Interviewee: Radood Muntazir al-Husseini
    • He is 31 years old, started since he was 10
    • Originally from baghda%d

    • Process of Performing

      • Preparation, one has to pick the qasidas
      • One has to do wudu, and be spiritually clean and pure
      • The audience looks to the radood as a holy representative

    • Qualities that distinguish a radood?

    • Lyrical choice depends on the theme of the event

    • When Muntazir started, he used qasids from famous ones, before he had poets to write for him

    • There is a sub-industry of the poets and the writers, each of whom support each other

      • Sometimes you ask a poet based on the theme, sometimes a poet sends you ones to perform if you are famous
    • Has given radoods all over the world (Bahrain, Lebanon, Iran, Kuwait,Iraq)
    • Pointed out that when he went to Lebanon, they didn't understand the idioms

    • Radoods typically follow three ways:

      • Start with a slow beat
      • Go with a faster beat
      • End with one like a "pop song" and loud

    • How many radoods are there in Iraq?

      • (jokingly) more radoods than attendees
      • There's no exact number, but Muntazir describes that Iraqis have a sad voice, which is what people often look for in radoods

    • How do you feel about the changes such as the al-shur stuff post 2011?

      • Latmiyas change with time, but the new stuff is going both ways
      • Positive: More accessibility due to digital videos

      • Negative: More people are focusing on the rhythm

        • People like Bassim Karbalei have kept pace with changes
        • People like Mullah Jayyid have preferred to keep the old ways, which has casued him to drop in popularity

    • Why do people focus on rhythms more than lyrics?

      • lyrics are hard to transplant, rhythms are easier

    • Are changes happening at a faster pace?

      • yes, previously radoods were not very good and relied on memorization and were often illiterate
      • new tools have helped develop this, more educated and more academic as time has gone on

    • How do you learn to become a radood?

      • there are scholarly rawdids
      • largely about the structure of the throat

      • main ways

        • young age, realize you have a good voice, and then eventually you carve out a path
        • you can also go learn at one of the many schools
      • apprenticeships, now there are many out there

    • Who funds the radood schools?

      • All radood schools are private

  • Radood notes, March 26, 2022 - Shia Center for Karbala Studies

    • Interviewee: Radood Muntazir al-Husseini, who is at the Karbala Center
    • Describes how there is a "comission from wealthy people" to the radood school, which supports all over Iraq
    • Definitely not a waqf, and not associated with the 3ttaba

    • There are radood schools in Baghdad, Karbala, Basra, Nasriya, Kut/Ammara

      • In baghdad, there is a big one in Kathimya and another in Sadr City
      • The Kathimyya one seems to produce more radoods now than the Karbala school

    • alkafeel.net/news/index?id=11772&lang=en

      • seems to describe the radood commission
    • Turkmen radoods as well seem to have their own thing going up in the north, probably worth validating
    • Radood commission is fully private, confirmed by Ali Tekmaji at the international relations part of the Hussein shrine

    • One of the main responsibilities of the commission is to issue licenses and certifications for radoods to perform outside of Iraq

      • Within Iraq, anything goes, anyone can perform at a specific place

  • Interview with Ali Tekamji, March 26, 2022 - International Media Office at the Hussein Shrine

    • In Karbala city, during the 3rd of Muharram to the 9th of Muharram
    • Each one has a radood, and the songs are often about the electricity, or the services
    • around ~20 groups, each with 100 people

    • The professor from the shrine has his own mokeb, I was wondering if he has any ones related to that, since he's a native karbali

      • Ask the professor and mustafa again?
    • 2PM shrine has a choir, Hussein shrine is "Mullah Sahib al-Karbalai"
    • The shrine is purchasing land around it, and all the land around it was previously private

  • Interview with mokeb administrator - March 27th, 2022

    • There does seem to be a certification process

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