Video Find of the Day
Unbelievably campy opening to a 1929 movie about Moroccan desert fighters. You have a guy in Arab garb who looks like a short bin Laden. You have exchanges like this: "She's only a woman! Give her up!" -- "That's the Oriental in you! You can't understand Western love!" And this is just the beginning of the movie!
THE DESERT 'MELODY' ~ FROM 1929 (one)
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Gnawa
Video Find of the Day
Gnawa is my new word. According to the Wikipedia article of that title, "The Gnawa or Gnaoua refers at once to a style of Moroccan music with sub-Saharan Africa origins or influence, an ethnic group and religious order at least in part descended from former slaves from Sub-Saharan Africa or black Africans migrated in caravans with the Trans-Saharan trade, or a combination of both." The music is hypnotic, incorporating call & response and hand-clapping, and may have originated with healing rituals. In Morocco it has fused with other styles. Here is a fantastic video in the Gnawa style. Stay tuned for the solo dance at the end.
hamid lkessri
Gnawa is my new word. According to the Wikipedia article of that title, "The Gnawa or Gnaoua refers at once to a style of Moroccan music with sub-Saharan Africa origins or influence, an ethnic group and religious order at least in part descended from former slaves from Sub-Saharan Africa or black Africans migrated in caravans with the Trans-Saharan trade, or a combination of both." The music is hypnotic, incorporating call & response and hand-clapping, and may have originated with healing rituals. In Morocco it has fused with other styles. Here is a fantastic video in the Gnawa style. Stay tuned for the solo dance at the end.
hamid lkessri
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