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Date recorded: September 1, 1967 to September 30, 1967
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: sacred song, song of greeting, wedding song
Culture: Amazigh, Moroccan
Instruments: voice
Setting: A wedding
Location: Touama, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Morocco
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T2086
Track Number: 26
Archive ID: T2086R26
Note: Group of women of the house welcoming a group of men who are bringing a ram as a gift to the wedding. "You are welcome to the house of Moulay al-Hussain, my village brothers." Names of God and of the Prophet Mohamed sung as the men come into the village gate.
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Belongs to: Touama 9/67
About the session: Alan Lomax made these recordings at a wedding in the village of Touama in the High Atlas Mountains. The bride is from the family of Moulay al-Hussain bin al-Haj Brahim, who is interviewed on track 8.
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