Larbi Batma, Nass el-Ghiwane and postcolonial music in Morocco
By: Lhoussain Simour ; foreword by Alessandra Ciucci
Contributors: Bāṭmā, al-ʻArabī, 1948-1997
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781476664149
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Nass el Ghiwan (Musical group); Popular music; Music; African influences; History and criticism
Description: The first book in English to examine the work of the Moroccan music group, Nass el-Ghiwane. It provides a reading of group member Larbi Batma's autobiography, Al-raḥīl, and discusses the emergence of al-Ūghniya al-Ghīwāniya (Ghiwanian song) as a musical genre and the social conditions that fostered its growth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207), discography (pages 185-189), and index.
Table of contents: title: Disturbing the canon : non-canonical voices in postcolonial Moroccan writing; title: Narrating marginality and reinventing the periphery : Larbi Batma's Al-raḥīl (The departure) between self-narration, individual agony and national allegory; title: Euphonious voice(s) from the margin : Nass el-Ghiwane and the making of alternative popular music.