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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 | 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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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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Orixas of Candomble | Brazil - 0 views

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    Candomblé in Salvador da Bahia
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Afro-Cuban Music : Great Essay on YouTube Video Page - 0 views

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    ...cabildos were formed from the Igbos, Araras, Bantu, Carabalies, Yorubas, and other civilizations/tribes. Cabildos preserved African cultural traditions...
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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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Kabiosile: Afro Cuban Folkloric Music for the Orishas of the Santeria/Lucumi Religion - 0 views

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    Kabiosile presents live recordings of the Afro Cuban folkloric music of Santeria (also known as Lucumi or la Regla de Ocha), Cuba's most dynamic African spiritual tradition. Learn to play the bata drums with El Lenguaje del Tambor : Bata Rhythms from Matanzas, Cuba.
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