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Originally Posted by Suheir
A huge amount of Arabic music exists in manuscript form from this time and back to the beginnings of Islam!
My teacher phoned me last night after she'd caught the dance scene in Vanity Fair on TV by accident, I was unaware of it before. To judge by the Internet Movie Database, the choreographers for this film are two Indians who usually choreograph for Bollywood films and the dancers aren't belly dancers.
There's a good critique here from an Anthropology Professor: hawgblawg: Hakim in "Vanity Fair" |
I think the women were supposed to have learnt to dance in Turkey but would they necessarily have used Turkish musicians at the time or had Western players playing what they thought was appropriate music. It isn't an important part of the book nor of the film so I suppose the producers just shrugged and went for the bizarre choice they did!
