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	World Music Central - Gnawa Music
		Gnawa is a term used to define both a Moroccan music style and a Muslim religious brotherhood that invokes God and many prophets.
		Gnawa music is based on pentatonic melodies and the syncopated rhythms led by the propulsive drive of a bass lute called sintir, metal castanets known as karkabas (also known as k'rkbs and qaraqeb) and chanting.
		Gnawa music is very powerful spiritual music and it is primarily used for healing.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20030414201518943 (676 words)

	Gnawa Festival \| PRI's The World
		Gnawa music was brought to Marocco by Guinea’s ancestors, who were captured as slaves in Sub-Saharan Africa.
		It’s likely that the word Gnawa derives from the name of the ancient kingdom of Ghana, were many of the slaves originated.
		Now we are proud to be son of Gnawa or daughter of Gnawa [because or thanks to the festival].
	www.theworld.org /?q=node/2317 (956 words)

	Moroccan Gnawa music celebrates African roots
		Gnawa appeared in Morocco some three centuries ago, mainly in Essaouira, when the city was built in 1764 by Alawite Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdullah to serve as a port for trade between Africa and Europe.
		Gnawa is a ritual of deliverance for the body and the mind, a therapeutic affair with elements of fl African culture and Islam.
		The rite of possession celebrated by the Gnawa is at the heart of their activities, which culminate in the Lila, the most important ceremony: The master, accompanied by a group of musicians, leads the ritual followed by clairvoyants whose job it is to tend the procession's accessories and costumes (long loose robes).
	www.culturebriefings.com /articles/mrgnawa.html (528 words)

	gnawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Gnawa troupes perform for tourist buses at the gate of the Casbah of Tangier, and they bring down the house at the annual Festival of Folklore in Marrakech.
		The Gnawa have their roots in communities of Sub-Saharan Africans, mostly from the region of the old Mali empire, who were brought to Morocco as slaves and mercenaries, starting in the 16th century.
		Until recently, the Gnawa were not well represented on record, although short excerpts of their performances have appeared on many touristic anthologies of Moroccan music, often recorded at the Marrakech Festival of Folklore or captured on the run on Jamaa el Fna.
	research.umbc.edu /eol/MA/index/number2/gnawa/gnawa.htm (1873 words)

	JohnJohnRecords - Mogador: history of traditional Gnawa music
		Gnawa music is a very ancient spiritual music played by brotherhoods of nomadic musicians.
		Over a period of time, the people of gnawa and the local population mixed to form a brotherhood with a blend of African and Arabic culture.
		The external pressures exerted on the gnawa brotherhood are very strong, from muslims fundamentalists, and modernists who say that to communicate with spirits are not compatible with a progressive civilisation.
	www.johnjohnrecords.com /html/band-mogador2.html (1005 words)

	RFI Musique - - Biography - Gnawa Diffusion
		The way Gnawa Diffusion see it, this historic tale of people uprooted from their homeland and forced to begin a new life in a foreign land is remarkably similar to the lives of modern-day immigrants growing up in France.
		Gnawa Diffusion's innovative musical fusion and the hard-hitting lyrics of their protest songs have certainly made them one of the most prominent new groups on the French music scene.
		Gnawa Diffusion returned to the studio in January '99, setting to work on their second album "Bab El Oued-Kingston" (which was released in May).
	www.rfimusique.com /siteen/biographie/biographie_6086.asp (1119 words)

	Gnawa
		After their conversion to Islam probably still in their country of origin they adopted Bilal[2] as their ancestor and saint patron, Bilal was the first fl person to convert to Islam and to become a companion of the Prophet Muhammad and the first muezzin (caller to prayer) in the history of Islam.
		In such ceremonies, the Gnawa stand out of themselves as “a social construction” in the Moroccan society to which they were acculturated throughout centuries after they first came as enforced migrants and dissolve themselves into “a spiritual construction” stripped from social and mundane identities and worldly affairs.
		[3] Viviana Pâques in "The Gnawa of Morocco: The Derdeba Ceremony," in
	www.ptwmusic.com /gnawa.htm (1793 words)

	Association Sidi Mimoun
		The Gnawa of Morocco are the descendants of the fl slaves deported from the countries of subsaharian west Africa (Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Guinea).
		At the beginning the songs and the dances, with the accompaniment of the lute-drum ganbri and hands-clapping, evoke the ancestors from Sudan (the fisherman, the hunter, the warrior), the ethnic origin of the moroccan Gnawa (Bambara, Haoussa, Peuls), the animals and the spirits of the forest and of the savanna.
		In the second part the Gnawa, with the ganbri and the iron castanets qraqeb play the Neghsha, the ceremonial ouverture of the Lila, that communicates the effervescence by rhythm and dance.
	www.gnawa.net /gnawa.htm (668 words)

	Benn loxo du taccu » Blog Archive » Gnawa revival
		The Gnawa are a sufi Islamic brotherhood from southern Morocco (around Marrakesh and Essaouira) who use music, rhythm and dance to heal and entrance their followers.
		Gnawa music has become sort of trendy in Western culture this last while which is why I ask myself, isn’t track 5 on the Cowboy Bebop sountrack a gnawa song?
		The way I learned to play the sintir, I was 5 years old and my mother was a trance dance Gnawa musician and she used to bring the Gnawa to perform at home for ceremony nights.
	bennloxo.com /archives/2005/12/11/gnawa-revival (1329 words)

	Cybergnawas
		The Gnawa, an oral culture, are traditionally in a state of constant adaptation and transformation.
		The North looks toward the Gnawa as representatives of an "authentic" oral tradition which might bring them closer to their pre-modern days just as the Gnawa look toward their origins in Sub-Saharan Africa' as a source for their search for tradition, authenticity and connection.
		The Gnawas are presented as having "emigrated" to Morocco during tribal wars and through the gold and slave trade.
	home.mindspring.com /~cybergnawas/pages/tours/musical_tour.htm (2291 words)

	El Maallem Mahmoud Gania Gnawa Essaouira CD Holland
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	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1385750/a/Gnawa+Essaouira.htm (170 words)

	Cybergnawas
		The authority usually is derived from having lived among the Gnawa for many years or being a Moroccan a for example.
		I was told by a scholar who attended a conference on slavery held in Essaouira (during the Gnawa Festival) that not a single Gnawa was invited to the proceedings, though many of the papers presented were about them.
		Dar Gnawa Page: M'alem Abdellah Boulkhair El Gourd is a Master healer Gnawa musician born in 1947 in the Kasbah of Tangier, Morocco.This page is about him and his brotherhood who are primarily known for their association with Jazz legend Randy Weston.
	home.mindspring.com /~cybergnawas/pages/tours/academic_tour.htm (989 words)

	Gnawa Halwa
		The term "Gnawa" refers to a North African ethnic minority that traces its origins to West African slaves and soldiers.
		In song texts, the Gnawa refer to their origins among the Bambara, Fulani, and Haussa, and history points to a large influx of them primarily in the Niger river bend area of Mali and Niger.
		The Gnawa begin the lila by remembering, through song and dance, the Gnawa of times past, their lands of origin, the experiences of their slave ancestors, and their tales of abduction, sale, separation and loneliness, and ultimately redemption.
	www.respectmusic.cz /2003/a_Halwa_m.html (526 words)

	The Gnawa and their Lila (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Gnawa communities in the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) trace their origins to the Sudan, not meaning the present-day nation of Sudan, but rather sub-Saharan African in general.
		However, the lila tradition is recognized to be a manifestation of the expressive culture of the historical Gnawa.
		The Gnawa, whose ancestors were neither literate nor speakers of Arabic, possess no such texts via which to perform their authority.
	www.brickhaus.com /deepdish/the_gnawa_and_their_lila.htm (1136 words)

	Interview with Georges Lapassade
		The Gnawa participate in a vast traditional therapy movement in the Maghreb, but we need to be cautious because a mythical discourse has been erected which the Gnawa enter into willingly, recognizing that it serves their interests.
		During the ceremony, different spirits related to colours, local Moroccan saints, and feminine beings, including Aïcha Kandicha, a central figure for the Moroccan Gnawa and in particular for the Hamadcha brotherhood where she occupies a place of honour alongside the founder of the brotherhood, are evoked.
		The Gnawa Moqqadema is possessed by Lalla Aïcha, and prophesies.
	www.africultures.com /anglais/articles_anglais/Lapassade.htm (1494 words)

	Hassan Hakmoun online
		The Gnawa form is one of the few powerful religious confraternities in Morocco.
		When they came, they brought their music with them which was called Gnawa.
		The Gnawa carry out ceremonies in order to heal people who are very sick.
	www.hassanhakmoun.com /press/hhintpress.php (898 words)

	B12 Solipsism: Gnawa
		In Moroccan popular culture, Gnawas, through their ceremonies, are considered to be experts in the magical treatment of scorpion stings and psychic disorders.
		Gnawa ceremonies use music and dance to evoke ancestral saints who can drive out evil, cure psychological ills, or remedy scorpion stings.
		While adopting Islam, Gnawa continued to celebrate ritual possession during rituals where they are devoted to the practice of the dances of possession and fright.
	www.b12partners.net /mt/archives/2006/10/gnawa.html (501 words)

	World of Gnawa
		Schuyler offers an overview to set the scene, in which we are told that Gnawa melodies are usually based on "relatively rudimentary codes [that] may not be sufficiently complicated to relieve the embarrassment of musicologists at the idea of music having internal meaning".
		No, this is not meant to put the listener off: because the melodies and the instruments are said to talk to Gnawa followers and to the spirits, adherents respond to the gods as they follow the musical flow.
		The main Gnawa musical activity is at the lila or derdeba ceremony.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/gnawa.htm (998 words)

	EL KARAM chant et musique gnawa du Maroc
		Their songs are written in dialectal and litterary Arabic and their folklore expresses all the richnesses of Morocco, Lebanon and Egypt.
		Gnawas are characterized by the practice of a music, a dance and bewitching rhythms having therapeutic vertues.
		Today, the Gnawa musical tradition borrows rhythms from the African percussions and reaches a lot of interest by the artistic generation of the nowadays worldmusic.
	musique.gnawa.free.fr /en/index.php (135 words)

	Randy Weston and the Gnawa Musicians of Morocco at the San Francisco Jazz Festival \| Review by Harry S. Pariser
		The musicians ancestors were brought from West Africa — the name “Gnawa” being a corruption of “Ghana” — from the eleventh century as slaves who became to Islamic converts.
		Introducing the Gnawa musicians, Randy speaks of his experiences growing up in New York City and of the spirit of curiosity of how music originated, its connections to the sacred, and its links to Africa which led him to Morocco.
		Randy stands and claps as the Gnawa musicians leave the stage and march through the audience to bring the concert to a conclusion.
	www.savethemanatee.com /Articles/Randy.Weston.Gnawa.2006.shtml (557 words)

	Gnawa: Afropop Style -- Morocco, North Africa
		Not a people as such, Gnawa trace their ancestries to various parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and claim as their patron saint Sidi Bilal, the Prophet Mohammed's first muezzin, or caller to prayer.
		The fact that the Gnawa's main string instrument--the sintir or gimbri--resembles a large version of the Bambara ngoni, suggests that many of the Gnawa came from there.
		One young Gnawa, Hassan Hakmoun, has settled in New York where he combines traditional instruments, keyboards and guitars to create a fusion that nods to Hendrix, even as the rhythm section moves back and forth between Jemaa el Fna and the Lower East Side.
	www.afropop.org /explore/style_info/ID/10/Gnawa (301 words)

	Griots.net \| Feature \| Nagadif Gnawa
		Nagadif Gnawa brought their rich brand of music from the southern Moroccan capital city Taroudant to Momo's Kemia Bar in London on Tuesday, February 25, 2003.
		Visiting the UK for a few small showcases, Nagadif Gnawa are young and vibrant ambassadors of gnawa music, bringing to life a variety of instruments including the sintir (a 3-string bass lute), genga drum, and castanets.
		Popular with audiences in Morocco, Nagadif Gnawa perform in groups ranging from 2 to 40 members, many of whom are part of the same Bouboul family.
	www.griots.net /archives/focus/gnawaprofile.html (372 words)

	FREE SOUNDS FROM THE OVERGROUND
		The oldest ancestors of Gnawa Spirituality are the Soudani, who have travelled the Sahara in camel caravans for thousands of years as traders.
		Gnawa are also the decendents of slaves trafficked from West Africa - specifically Ghana and Guinea (ergo the name "Gnawa") to Muslim North Africa.
		The primary instrument of the Gnawa is the sintir (also called guimbre and hahjouj), a 3-stringed bass lute covered by a camel-skin head, which doubles as a drum.
	www.worldlyvibe.com /gnawa.html (412 words)

	Gnawa Halwa - ritual trance music and dance · Cross Culture Music · booking agency, DJ booking, artists agency, ...
		The three musicians come from the Gnawa brotherhood whose mythical origins are situated in Sudan and Mali.
		They alternate their lives within their traditional brotherhood, with the worldwide tours with different Gnawa bands and their own projects.
		Together, they are able to bring varied publics to trance, communicating the warmth of the African tradition thanks to their use of modern stage techniques and ancestral knowledge.
	www.cross-culture-music.de /english/gnawa_halwa.php (222 words)

	Gnawa Halwa - ritual trance music and dance · Cross Culture Music · booking agency, DJ booking, artists agency, ...
		The Gnawa (Gnaoua) is a brotherhood whose mythical origins are situated in Sudan and Mali.
		The "Moussems" (pilgrimages) are occasions for more massive annual meetings, allowing exchanges between different groups of Gnawa, and different brotherhoods also practicing trance (Aïssaoua, Jilala, Hamadsha for example).
		Moulay Brahim and Abdellah ben Hussein are the two most important Gnawa moussems in the region of Marrakesh.
	www.cross-culture-music.de /english/gnawa_halwa_musiker.php (431 words)

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