Conversation with unidentified villagers

Audio file
Date recorded: September 1, 1967 to September 30, 1967
Contributor(s): Performer: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: interview/commentary
Culture: Amazigh, Moroccan
Instruments: voice
Location: Tinjdad, Errachidia, Meknès-Tafilalet, Morocco
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T2091
Track Number: 25
Archive ID: T2091R25
Note: Alan Lomax asks the other villagers in French to sing in unison with the first man.
Belongs to: Tinjdad 8/67
About the session: Workers' chants in the Amazigh town of Tinjdad in the High Atlas region between Ouarzazate and Errachidia (formerly Ksar es-Souq). Brief demonstrations of what Lomax identified as earth-pounding song performed by a "middle-aged man."
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