Paul Bowles over a five-month period from July to December 1959. It is a snapshot, or perhaps a time capsule, of a culture then relatively pure and unmolested by the world outside. Paul Bowles lived ...
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Breaking barriers in Aita music in Morocco

Thouria Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love, ...
Showcasing Manx culture at one of Africa's largest folk dance festivals was "an unforgettable experience", the leader of a ...
Arabs, Jews, Berbers, Andalusians, Sufis, sub-Saharan Africans and miscellaneous remnants of colonialism all inform “native” Moroccan culture. Therefore, it’s not surprising that the country’s music ...
I had the pleasure of hosting an in-studio visit by members of the group Innov Gnawa earlier this week at KCRW, and I was entranced by the powerful rhythms and chants. Gnawa is Moroccan trance music, ...
RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco's Gnawa, heirs to a musical and spiritual tradition brought north across the Sahara centuries ago by black slaves, are enjoying new fame as their hypnotic rhythms ...
CDR copy- FW-ASCH-5RR-5538 is music from Morocco, recorded by Christopher Wanklyn, who produced FW04339, Music of Morocco. Tape box says "CBC 4." Repository Loc. Smithsonian Institution, Center for ...