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Submitted by webmaster on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 10:21
Posted by elksiba
March 10, 2007
Video Summary:
"Amazigh music from Morocco. Atlas ahidous music from Khenifra city."
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For some background, here's an excerpt from this Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_music:
The Berbers are an ethnic group in North and West Africa. Those who lived in northwest Africa were called Libyan by the Greek, Africans, Numidians and moors by the Romans and dubed Berbers by the Arabs. The Berber culture probably dates back more than 4,000 years and the Berbers were inhabitants of North Africa long before the Arabs arrived. Berber belongs to the Afro-Asiatc gronp, linquistically and has many different dialects. Their music is widely varying across the area they inhabit, but is best known for its place in Moroccan music, the popular Kabylian and chawi music of Algeria and the widespread Tuareg music of Algeria, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. Ancient Berber culture is stylistically diverse with music ranging from oboe and bagpipes to pentatonic music and all these combined with African rhythms and an important stock of oral literature.[1] These ancient traditions of music have been kept alive by small bands of musicians travelling from village to village to entertain at weddings and other social events with their songs, tales, and poetry. The real core of Berber music remains within traditional, community contexts. «Berber» is related both to Semitic languages, among them Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic, and to ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and the Cushitic languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia. The Berber people are known as "Imazigen" (meaning "free people" in Berber. Much of the most interesting Berber music is not pop at all, but rather village and urban folk music. Aesthetics and style aside, it is important to understand that the whole subject of Berber music and culture is inevitably colored by Berber people’s longstanding struggle to achieve basic language rights in modern North African societies.[2]...
Musical/Vocal Styles
Berber music is well-known for its use of folk oral traditions, as well as particular scales and rhythmic patterns, which include pentatonic music and African rhythms[3]. All these tunes are combined together to form one of the main sources of entertainment in Berber social ceremonies like marriages, verses, tales and songs.
Berber vocal styles in Morocco consist of two main types. The first, called Ahwash, is exclusively village music, probably unchanged for centuries or longer. Ahwash texts emphasize the submission of the individual to the community. Typically, it consists of two large choruses engaging in call-and-response vocals, accompanied by instrumentalists and dancers. Since this music requires anywhere from 20 to 150 participants, it is not easily portable and so rarely heard in the cities. The second, called Raiss, is performed by smaller groups of professional musicians who blend dance, comedy, and sung poetry...
Instruments typically include the rebab, a one-stringed fiddle, the lotar lute, hand drums, and a bell. One notable feature of rwais (rais, singular) melodies is the way they leap up and down in large intervals...
The Berber music of the Tuareg region uses rhythms and vocal styles similar to the music of other Berbers and Arab music, while West African call-and-response-style singing is also common. In contrast to many of the region's peoples, among the Tuareg, music is mostly the domain of women, especially the imzhad, a string instrument like a violin. Tuareg weddings feature unique styles of music, such as the vocal trilling of women and special dances (ilkan) of slaves marking the occasion.
Instrumentation
The Berber people are spread out over a large part of Africa, but seem to have a dense concentration within the North Western part of Africa. The people have a vast array of instruments, both melodic and percussive...
Berbers are a solid majority of Morocco's population, but are nevertheless politically marginalized...
Ethnic dance is becoming increasingly uncommon in Morocco. When it was active, it could be seen at the Marrakesh Folk Festival....
Within the past 4 years, Morocco has seen a lot of change. Most of that change has come with the use of the satellite receiver. It has been added to almost every household in Morocco. Out of 300 channels, 30 of them are religious. Because of these religious channels, women are no longer permitted to dance in public. Islamists consider this to be dishonorable to herself and her family, thus imposing fundamentalist Arab Muslim beliefs on the Berber peoples.[6]
Some parts of North Africa, near Eastern, still have some Berber Dance traditions....
Selected English language comments from
http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments=1&v=SWQfEacXH6g
Posted in 2007:
Pistolero24- Nostalgia kicks in ! Magnificient culture...
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leila412- Niceeee!
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Posted in 2008:
samharoush- our illi am ntmazirt. thank you,im proud to be a moroccan Amazigh cowboy.
the real cowboy.
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hassanmahtat- Master Achibaan, what a beautiful butterfly.
Hadchi kay jiib l9ouch3ariirah!!
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samharoush- ourilli am Tmazirt,and Imazighen,to all Imazighen in Morocco from Rif,Latlas,all the way to Agadir,we love you from U.S.A.
3asha Imazighen for ever
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ibnrushd- for centuries this cultures has not changed, moroccans have to be more proud of their amazigh origines
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samharoush- Amazigh will never die,and when an Amazigh dies,hundreds are born.
Amazigh Culture will be carried on,and it will be the same Beautifull and Peacfull People who will never change.
Only for good.
This is the Land of Imazighen.
Love from the United States of America.
And From An Amazigh who will never ever give it up,even if its Life or Death.
Peace everybody.
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kannasser- Azoul, this is a real good video. thanks man for shownig our traditions and being proud, tamazight walo am nettate tehla tamazight hlan imazighn.
Tanemert
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aitstarswe- Imazighen or Amazigh ( singular ) is the original ethnic group of the Maghreb region in North Africa. Berbers, these unique people persisted to exist and maintain their traditions even after several foreign invasions. In Morocco there are more than 20 million Berber spread around the country in few distinct tribes and groups.
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ajdirEUorg- the men in this video is called (the maystro) he is very famous in morocco
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azulsimiami- This is great. I love it.
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sweetschoolgirl - we never appreciate what we have until we lose it
same like you, i feel our land calling us, maybe one day ...
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casawi1973-You absolutely right sweetschoolgirl .but as you said soon enough we will go back there, go back to where we belong.Thanks for Your Comment.
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sweetschoolgirl-Your welcome
:D
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sweetschoolgirl- yalatif yalatif yalatif yalatif this is the phrase that both arab and imazighen won the seperation war that french want to see arab and imazighen and berber eating eat other.
brothers and sisters, we are two different flowers in same bouquet.
we are one piece of money with two different faces without one face, this money has no value
again plz repeat with me yalatif yalatif yalatif yalatif
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kanibaal25-
amzigh=berber
berber=amazigh
not imazighen and berbers...naming the same people twice...
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massinissa19833- azul tanmirte s watas i kolo mayd isahmen barad yrin lvideo degh gher dadgh,its really a good one,this what called the art,rules,rythme,sounds,everything organized in group,vive imazighen et les marocains
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9girl1- Love the Ahidous..takes me back to my childhood when we visited our grandparents who lived in Azrou + Khenifra...I am so proud that the dance is protected and passed on to from one generation to the next.
Forever les Berberes !!!
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Rasscoco-The maestro is amazing and the beats are cadenced and well- mastered. Cool!
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zottemans-any one knows the name of this group
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tafoushte- He is called Mouha oul houssein (The Maestro)he is very old know but his son is in his foot steps.He is been in the USA for several times representing MORROCCO.I had the pleasur meeting him back home many times and have few pictures with him,He is a great MEN.
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Pirikahu-Wow this is sooo cool!!
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belami2008- The maestro(moha oul Hossain) is Legendary!
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northafricano - berbers have a rich culture
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jhfgfkjgfuyfgh- moha lhoussin he's the cedar for morocco
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Rasscoco-Imazighen rocks since million of years like that, they are happy to be who they are and that is why they preserved their good traditions and thier language remained unsacathed despite all the temptations to try to eradicate it from the face of earth.
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bahga6 -akhrib kamal Amazigh, the proud raiders. But most people know them as Berbers.
For millennia, the Berbers of North Africa fought against Roman, Arab and French invaders. And, despite a history of colonisation, they have managed to preserve their language and culture, and have defended their land.
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thaqua- hi everybody,
yes,indeed, this is a great music...no doubt about it. we all amazighs enjoy playing and watching ahidous or even listening to it...but honestly, we -amazighs- still have alot to reconsider...we have to contextualize ourselves in an extremely competitive world, and try to ask ourselves to what extent......
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mshiesh- i'm proud to be Musilm Amazigh From Khenifra
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mounisoum- i'm soooooooooooooooo proud to be ana Amazigh girl "l3azz l imazighen" by the way i'm from imouzzer
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Posted in 2009:
salahfcb- Go Morocco !
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Liz66bee-Absolutely breathtaking - WOW beautiful music, beautiful culture!!
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bahraouik- It is indeed...thank you for your comment !
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Bouyassli- The famous moroccan cowboy song !
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Posted in 2010:
madroma01-SUPER