Nouba : noun (word coming from the Arabic of Algeria nuba “in turn”, designating the pieces of music that the musicians played in turn in front of the houses of the dignitaries, the caliphs). Term taken up by the French soldiers when they discovered at the end of the XNUMXth century the catchy music of the fanfares of the North African skirmishers. The hairy people of the First World War popularized the expression "faire la nouba", "to do the Party ", the binge.