Gnawa music is often likened to American blues and gospel. Gnawa music is a mixture of African rhythms and Islamic poetry created by enslaved West Africans brought to Morocco. For centuries, it was ...

A dancer whips her hair and lifts and drops her chest as the thwacking bass sound of the sintir fills the air. There are cries of “Ifriqiya!” and “Kandisha!” The musicians call out the names of ...

A mix of tradition and Afrofuturism, acoustic and electronic, east and west fumigating in a cauldron of rhythms, chants, solo ...

Simply put, Gnawa is the music of formerly enslaved black Africans who integrated into the Moroccan cultural and social landscape, and founded a model to preserve the traditions and folkloric music of ...

Most people have never heard of Gnawa. Originally you weren't supposed to. For centuries, the music was only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Gnawa—an ...

Gnawa music is a Moroccan spiritual musical tradition developed by descendants of enslaved people from sub-Saharan Africa. Combining ritual poetry with traditional music and dance, the Gnawa master is ...

This week's show featured a lecture presented by the African Studies Center and African-American Studies Program at Boston University. The title of the lecture was "The Internal African Diaspora, ...

The first two events in El-Genaina's April series will include performances by Lebanese singer and composer Abeer Nehme and the University of Gnawa musical project Two concerts will launch El-Genaina ...

Japan's premier world music festival is held not in Tokyo, but the unlikely setting of Nanto City, Toyama, which since 1991 has provided a home to Sukiyaki Meets The World. There's no need to feel ...