Lhoussain Simour

Larbi Batma, Nass el-Ghiwane and Postcolonial Music in Morocco

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Established in 1971, Nass el-Ghiwane is a legendary musical group that transformed the Moroccan music scene in the last decades of the 20th century. The charismatic founding member Larbi Batma (1948-1997) through his lyrics brought to light Moroccan folklore and obscure poetry. His autobiography Al-rä¿l, blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction and deals with social issues plaguing post-independence Morocco. Providing a reading of Al-rä¿l, this book is the first in English to examine the work of Nass el-Ghiwane, as well as the emergence of al-¿ghniya al-Gh¿waniya as a musical genre and the social conditions that fostered its growth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781476664149
• ISBN-10: 1476664145
• Artikelnr.: 44943197

Autorenporträt

Lhoussain Simour is an assistant professor of English and cultural studies at Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco. His research interests include cultural studies, colonial discourse analysis, and postcolonial literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Alessandra Ciucci Preface Introduction I.
Disturbing the Canon: Non-Canonical Voices in Postcolonial Moroccan Writing II.
Narrating Marginality and Reinventing the Periphery: Larbi Batma's Al-rä
l (The Departure) between Self-Narration, Individual Agony and National Allegory III.
Euphonious Voice(s) from the Margin: Nass el-Ghiwane and the Making of Alternative Popular Music Conclusion Discography Chapter Notes Bibliography Index