This CD/DVD package documents the suite of songs played in Moroccan Gnawa ceremony; it's music that's more spiritual currency than a product or showcase. An "Ouled Bambara" is a suite of Gnawa songs ...

Brooklyn-based sextet Innov Gnawa envelops audiences in the hypnotic beauty of Moroccan Gnawa (GUH-nah-wah) music. The word Gnawa signifies not only a style of music, but also the people who created ...

Gnawi musician Brahim Belkane has performed alongside rock icons Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, but his acoustic, trance-inducing music — derived from Morocco’s one-time ...

Introduction: Becoming Gnawa -- From Enslavement to Gnawa: Historical Postcards and the Construction of Gnawa Identity -- Black Women, Photographic Representation, and Female Agency -- Fraja ...

The Gnawa musical healers of Morocco are a perennial fascination within the broad tableau of the Afropop story. They bring together potent themes--slavery and its legacy of displacement and diaspora, ...

It’s twilight in Essaouira. There’s a stippled afterglow smudging the Atlantic horizon, and the last kitesurfers are padding, barefoot, back to their digs. Behind the beach, snail-sellers are serving ...