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Possessing Gnawa Culture: Displaying Sound, Creating History | Musical Performance Context - 0 views

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    Gnawa music has become familiar to many Westerners; less familiar is Gnawa culture, religion, musical theory, musical instruments, and performing context of the Gnawa musicians. This online thesis (free, no download required) offers a good overview.
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Possessing Gnawa Culture: Displaying Sound, Creating History | Introduction - 0 views

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    Gnawa music has become familiar to many Westerners; less familiar is Gnawa culture, religion, musical theory, musical instruments, and performing context of the Gnawa musicians. This online thesis (free, no download required) offers a good overview.
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Possessing Gnawa Culture: Displaying Sound, Creating History in an Unofficial Museum - 0 views

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    A thesis on the Moroccan Gnawa musician/healers; their performance context, metaphors of spiritual possession, their culture, a discography, and more.
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Gnawa (Gnaoua), a Mystical Moroccan Sect of Musician Healers - 0 views

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    A portal on the Gnawa people, and the smaller sect within of musicians/healers in Morroco. From marginalized subculture to "official" representatives of Moroccan culture, many Gnawa have undergone a dramatic transition in the past decade as their music has been "discovered" by western "world music" lovers. Consequently, the Web has been a central mean of disseminating information about this culture.
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Yair Dalal | Israeli-Iraqi Oud Musician - 0 views

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    Yair Dalal, born in 1955; composer, violinist, oud player and singer; is probably the most prolific Israeli ethnic musician and plays an important role in shaping the global world music scene. Over the last decade he has put 11 albums, covering wide and varied cultural territory, and authentically representing Israel's cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal's work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. Dalal's family came to Israel from Baghdad and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work.
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Djembé Rhythms | Cultural Context - 0 views

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    Cultural Context for Djembé Rhythms
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Gypsy (Roma) Music, Dance, and Culture |:| Roma, Rom, Gypsy, Gipsy - 0 views

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    Gypsy (Roma) music and culture on the web
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Born to Roma | Amala School - 0 views

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    The Roma's signifiers are still source of both reverence and derision in the West. While their cultural product, from the great Django Reinhardt to the pop chart-ready sound of the Gipsy Kings, has been happily consumed, as a people they have been held at arm's length by a Europe still fixating typecasts of the thief and the mystic. Today, the Roma remain one of the most persecuted communities in Europe.
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Quimbanda | Brazilian Tradition related to Candomble - 0 views

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    musica brasileira music brasil brazilian culture history candomblé afrobrazilian
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Scribd | avivamagnolia | Documents - 0 views

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    All the documents I've uploaded to Scribd (on clinical nutrition, nutritional supplements, Afrocuban music and culture, etc.)
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Sámi Culture and the Yoik - 0 views

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    The Sámi are an indigenous people of Northern Europe. They live in the land of Sámi (or Sápmi), which spans four realms: Norway, Sweden, Russia and Finland. The Sámi population is estimated at 75,000. The Sámi are linked by a shared history, culture, dress, language and family roots.
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Congueros | Conga Drummers | One Guy's Favorites - 0 views

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    List of one listener's favorite congueros (conga drummers) from Cuban, Puerto Rican, and other Caribbean / Latin-American cultures.
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Ranchera? What? Lila Downs ::: Tu Recuerdo y Yo - 0 views

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    In case you wanted to get some clarity around what a Mexican "ranchera" is. Here's one example from Lila Downs. Of course, it's got some hip hop inflections in the middle of it. But hey. We live in a pomo culture.
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Possessing Gnawa Culture: Displaying Sound, Creating History | Encounter with the West - 0 views

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    "Gnawa always had their trades," Abdullah El-Gourd was quick to tell me. "Not like now. Then you were a carpenter, a metal smith, a mason, everyone had their job. And you were also a Gnawi. Now people make being a Gnawi into a profession. It's even on their carte nationale (national identity cards).
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Possessing Gnawa Culture: Displaying Sound, Creating History | Metaphors of Possession - 0 views

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    Spirits in Morocco are called al-mluk - the possessors, from the verb ma-la-ka, to own. There is a relationship of power within the body of the possessed, which is often a conflictual one until the possessed submits to the possessor.
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Dailymotion - Akim and arabandalousian, une vidéo de akimsikameya. World, mus... - 0 views

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    Algerian singer Akim el Sikameya, with his syncretic blend of arab-mediterranean-gypsy-jazz-rai-flamenco-klezmer-ska, is sure to surprise you with his very high voice and his mission to fight against fundamentalism - and for a common Mediterranean culture - with his art.
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