It opens with the group call-and-response of “Soudani Manayou”, a tribute to the Sahel ancestors who brought this music to Morocco, and featuring Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, while the drums, qraqebs ...

RABAT, May 2 (KUNA) -- Universal music will be the title of the upcoming Gnawa and World music festival which will be held in Al-Sawaira City west of Rabat from 22-25 of June. The 9th version of the ...

Abdellah El Gourd, a legend of gnawa, in the Moroccan city of Tangiers which will host 2024's International Jazz Day — FADEL SENNA The Moroccan city of Tangiers, which has a long history as a haven of ...

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 ...

Emplacement -- Intoxication -- "A gesture narrowly divides us from chaos" : gesture and word in trance time -- Working the spirits : the entranced body, the entranced word -- On the threshold of a ...

Introduction: Becoming Gnawa -- From Enslavement to Gnawa: Historical Postcards and the Construction of Gnawa Identity -- Black Women, Photographic Representation, and Female Agency -- Fraja ...