Tim Abdellah’s Web Thing
SPIELING: GNAWA
الحمد لله
I have researched, performed, and spieled about Moroccan Gnawa music since the 1990s. Below you can find links to some things I've written and some radio appearances.
Writings and Radio
Interview about Gnawa music on "Voices of the Middle East and North Africa", KPFA 94.1-FM, Berkeley..
Part 1
October 27, 2010
Gnawa section begins at -27:45
Part 2
November 3, 2010
Gnawa section begins at -21:15
Interview as part of the Afropop Worldwide Hip Deep radio program "Traveling Spirit Masters: The Gnawa of Morocco". October, 2009.
Musicking Moves and Ritual Grooves Across The Moroccan Gnawa Night. PhD Dissertation, Music, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2009.
This is unpublished. Perhaps AI will help me boil it down to something reasonable for public consumption…
"Slavery's Past in the Musical Present: Ritual and Memory in the Moroccan Gnawa Lila". Paper given at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology Miami, Florida, October 5, 2003. pdf
"Where are you, Children of the Sudan?: The recollection of slavery in the lila ritual of the Gnawa of Morocco". Paper given at the Second International Conference on Slavery and Religion in the Modern Era, organized by Fondation Alizés, Nigerian Hinterland Project (York University and UNESCO), and the collaboration of Al-Akhawayn University. Essaouira, Morocco, June 2001. pdf
“The Gnawa and Their Lila: An Afro-Maghrebi Ritual Tradition”. Essay for concert program “"Spirit! The Power of Music!" featuring Randy Weston and the Gnawa Musicians of Morocco, presented by 651 Arts, September, 1999.