The role of women in Raï music

1. Being a woman and a singer
   • The inaccessible ones
   • The miseries of life
   • Practicing an art
     
     
2. The discourse of feminine Raï
   • The complaint, the lament
   • Defense and illustration of the pleasure principle
   • Functions of discourse and counter-discourse
     
     
3. Bibliography
   
4. Discography

This article is a multimedial elaboration of extracts from the volume La chanson raï (Paris 1995). We would like to thank publisher Kathala for granting us permission to translate them for use in this journal. Translation from the French by Rachid Aadnani and Michael Toler.