Dance song (part 1)

Title: Dance song (part 1)
Date recorded: September 1, 1967 to September 30, 1967
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified women; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Genre: dance song
Instruments: naqus, voice
Culture: Amazigh, Moroccan

Subject(s):

Note: Series of songs by women.
Setting: A wedding, indoors

Location: Aguelmouss, Ouarzazate, Souss-Massa-Drâa, Morocco

Archive ID: T2088R10

Original format: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T2088
Track: 10

Part of: Aguelmouss II 9/67

About the session: A series of songs by a group of women in the Amazigh / Berber village of Aguelmouss in Ouarzazate Province. These dance songs feature rhythmic accompaniment on the naqus, a percussion instrument which consists of a brass tray which is beaten with iron rods.

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