It led to an increase in artistic production… The war…the beginning of another war against tradition

Sudan Events – Magda Hassan

One of the artists pointed out that the war currently taking place in Sudan has increased artists’ determination to produce in various fields of arts, as theatrical work continues and new songs continue on an almost daily basis despite the interruption of renewal over the past years. This means that the war had a clear impact on the dimension About other people’s songs.

Recent mutation

Despite the modern boom in media devices, traditional artistic dealings were the most prominent feature, as these devices decide for the artist what to sing and decide for the recipient what to hear.

The exacerbation of the phenomenon of imitators is largely due to the media and some television channels that worked to establish them as artists. Television programs are not marketed except with their participation, which never departs from imitation.
The artist Saif Al-Jamaa blamed those channels for the decline that accompanied the youth’s journey, as they now had two types of songs: low-key singing outside the media system, and imitation singing of the channels.
The university believes that in doing so, a very great opportunity was lost to encourage these young men and women who love singing, to push them to compete in order to produce their own songs and protect the production of others and their literary rights.
March review

At the beginning or end of any year, we stop to review the artistic journey and what has been accomplished. We will not find a new artist or a new song, especially in the media outlets, and in the record of creativity and creators, perhaps for ten years back, we will find nothing but a pile of imitation and crowds of imitators who have passed on without leaving a trace. They made an impact after they filled the arena with noise and uproar without any real production.

Promising projects

Mustafa Sayed Ahmed can be considered the last of the great artists, who had a clear and distinct contribution and imprint on Sudanese singing, almost a school in itself.
After him, the arena was filled with many projects by promising artists. This crowd of half and quarter artists tried to fill the void that resulted from the cessation of major artists in renewal and their departure one after the other. A few of that crowd tried honestly and sincerely to be an artist with their own artistic project and worked hard to achieve this path, but he did not continue the journey until the end for various reasons, including not dealing with art as a serious issue and message, so they chose to withdraw, and search for other fields that suit their true potential and abilities.

However, the most important thing that remains in the artistic arena in terms of the experimentation that it has witnessed over the past ten years at least is the crowd of imitators and imitators who occupied the artistic scene far and wide, so that the past ten years can be described as a decade of imitators, who became famous for performing other people’s songs and built their fame on the ruins of others, and perhaps these songs are their way to wealth at the expense of the original, but another justice distracted the artists from imitation, diligence, and intonation.