"Your Subculture Soundtrack" is a music wiki devoted to creating the definitive music encyclopedia which includes aspects of all music topics. The best part is that anyone can edit here!
"Your Subculture Soundtrack" is a music wiki devoted to creating the definitive music encyclopedia which includes aspects of all music topics. The best part is that anyone can edit here!
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.
From the 1950s in Smyrna and Istanbul and working class/poor Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki, to it's 1922 spread on the Greek mainland, to its height between WWI and WWII...