Morocco News News Morocco » Music: Ancient Gnawa music — dubbed Moroccan Blues — finds new audiences in Europe, America
Most people have never heard of Gnawa. Originally you weren't supposed to. For centuries, the music was only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Gnawa—an ...
News Morocco » Music: Morocco mourns Abdelwahab Doukkali, pioneer of modern Moroccan music
Moroccan musician, composer, and actor Abdelwahab Doukkali has died at the age of 85, closing a career that lasted more than five decades and helped shape modern Moroccan music. Doukkali was born in ...
News Morocco » Music: Time Traveling with Musical Recordings from Mid-20th-Century Morocco
Always without formulating the concept, I had based my sense of being in the world partly on an unreasoned conviction that certain areas of the earth’s surface contained more magic than others. Had ...
News Morocco » Music: Morocco taps African roots with Gnawa music revival
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 ...
News Morocco » Music: Discover Moroccan Music for Kids with Mahmoud Chouki & Alliance Française
The Alliance Française of New Orleans (AFNO) is excited to announce a vibrant collaboration with the New Orleans Public Library, offering a series of free workshops designed to introduce children to ...
News Morocco » Music: A Brazilian, Moroccan and Israeli singer brings her unique North African sound to NYC
(New York Jewish Week) — Though she grew up in Israel, Tamar Bloch’s childhood was a mishmash of cultures. With a Moroccan mother and Brazilian father, Bloch often heard Portuguese and Arabic ...
News Morocco » Music: Inside a Dance Music Festival Held at a Moroccan Movie Studio
Atlas Studios, located in Ouarzazate, Morocco, has served as a shooting location for Game of Thrones, Gladiator, and Martin Scorsese’s Kundun. But at about 3 AM on a Sunday in October, it was home to ...
News Morocco » Music: Healing with music: A Moroccan NGO revives the spiritual practice
Rabat, Morocco – At the Ibn Sina public hospital, Abdelmajeed says tells Al Jazeera how his teenage son now no longer dreads the wait for the four-hour kidney dialysis sessions he needs to undergo ...
News Morocco » Music: Saving Historic Songs, and a Jewish Culture in Morocco
For centuries after the expulsion from Spain, Morocco’s Sephardic Jewish women sang of love, loss and identity. Now, they’re almost all gone. By Aida Alami TANGIER, Morocco — They sang to put their ...