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- Moroccan Music Today: Re-Examined Past, Innovative Future [AfroPop] Audio program exploring how artists are preserving styles like Gnawa, brought to Morocco by slaves from West Africa, and rwayes, Amazigh troubadour music of southern Morocco. We will also hear everything from Amazigh black metal to a band covering Bob Marley songs with Moroccan instruments, along with some female artists who are powerfully staking out their place in male-dominated genres. Produced by Jesse Brent.
- [Article] Music for One World: Moroccan Musical Experience of Diversity, Fusion, Happiness, Healing, and Peace by Mark Reimer. Journal of Global Awareness: Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 4. Although steeped in Islamic religion and culture, Morocco is a land of varying influences and histories, including those of the native Berbers, the Moors and Jews driven out of Spain, those who follow the pious Sufi culture of Islamic spiritualism, and the Gnawa slaves who were brought into southern Morocco by Arabs. The music, customs, values, and everyday lives of these disparate peoples continue to not only blend with each other’s but also to fuse Moroccan music and culture with those of Europe, Africa, and America
- [Article] Protest Song Marocaine. MERIP - Middle East Research and Information Project: Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971. 263 (Summer 2012) by John Schaeffer. A familiar song accompanied the massive protests that began on February 20, 2011 in Morocco. The song, “Fine Ghadi Biya Khouya” (Where Are You Taking Me, Brother?), was first released in 1973 by Nass el Ghiwane, the venerable folk-pop group that continues to dominate Moroccan popular music — its aesthetics and social conscience. It resurfaced in a 2003 cover by the band Hoba Hoba Spirit. And it was broadcast again in the background of the 2011 demonstrations that had much in common with the uprisings across the Arab world, but which in Morocco never became a revolt.
- [Article] 6 Rising Female Moroccan Singers to Have on Your Radar (Jan. 3, 2021) Vogue: Culture. Jan. 3, 2021 by JIHANE BOUGRINE. Manal, Abir, Faouzia, Ilham, Yousra, Jaylann. The Moroccan music industry is booming as young, female artists raise their voices.
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