Hazrat Inayat Khan(1882-1927) had introduced the West to Sufism many years previously. But his strand of Sufism drew on the perennialist belief in the unity of the great faiths and played down the tradition's Islamic roots, while the idiosyncratic version of Sufism advocated byIdries Shah(1924...
Music of Morocco, from the Library of Congress, Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959 by April G. Ledbetter, Steven Lance Ledbetter, and Bill Nowlin (review) it is also a strong contribution to the history of Germanlanguage music in America and to Swiss America in general. libraries and individuals...
been invited to record his inaugural bannered album. Sure, Allen’s name is synonymous with that of Sun Ra’s, but since serving his time in the army overseas in France, where the action was at, during the 1940s, and then taking up the alto sax and studying in Paris, he hung out w...
In Contemporary Morocco: State, Politics, and Society Under Mohammad VI, edited by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Daniel Zisenwine, 161-177. New York: Routledge.Boum, A. "Youth, Political Activism and the Festivalization of Hip-Hop Music in Morocco." In Contemporary Morocco: State, Pol...
Politics & Society After Gao: how important are mixed patrols to Mali’s future? With the world’s media riveted to events in Washington, the West African nation of… Read more → The Bataclan and the battle for music Anyone who walks out onto any stage – in Paris, or London, or Madr...
religion and politics. As students and teacher find themselves in direct conflict with the social issues they explore through music, each of them must reckon with the decision to continue rapping or return to the silence of their previous lives. With a dynamic ensemble of first-time actors, Ayo...
Trance music Sufi brotherhoods (tarikas) are common in Morocco, and music is an integral part of their spiritual tradition, in contrast to most other forms of Islam, which do not use music. This music is an attempt at reaching a trance state which inspires mystical ecstasy. The brothers ho...
“In Morocco there is no structure for music, so there is no money. My parents said ‘No no no, please just stay here and study so you can have a career and a job and survive’,” explains RedOne. “Everyone is a musician in Morocco because it’s in the culture. People love to ...
played by and for the ordinary people, is calledchaabi. It first appeared around 1930s in Algeria, formalized by the country’s famous master musician El Hadj Mohammed El Anka (Zerar & Riche 2015:236). In the same generation, chaabi hit the streets of Morocco, although it was not populari...
Motivated by the well-established benefits to society of artistic creation and of demographic diversity, we investigate the gender and racial/ethnic composition of influential contributors to four creative domains. Women make up 51% of the U.S. populatio