Music festivals can sometimes feel repetitive. If you've gone to a few over the summer, just think about how many times you've seen the same artist perform in different cities. Reinventing the wheel ...

What happens when you combine Spanish, French, African and Arabic music? Bedouin shepherds frequenting the Algerian port of Oran first dived into this mixing bowl in the early twentieth century. What ...

Most people have never heard of Gnawa. Originally you weren't supposed to. For centuries, the music was only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Gnawa—an ...

Paul Bowles over a five-month period from July to December 1959. It is a snapshot, or perhaps a time capsule, of a culture then relatively pure and unmolested by the world outside. Paul Bowles lived ...

This post is part of our special coverage Morocco Protests 2011. Each year the capital Rabat is the epicenter of a major music festival, Mawazine. Since its modest launch in 2001, Mawazine has grown, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. Helia Jamali: “After releasing the Tiniri Ep on Sol Selectas and all the great ...

Rabat, Jun 12 (EFE) .Rabat, Jun 12 (EFE) . — Artists performing at the Mawazine Festival in Rabat, the venue of the scantily clad U.S. singer Jennifer Lopez controversy on May 29, received a letter on ...

This 4-disc box set, curated by legendary Beat Generation composer and writer Paul Bowles, offers an eye-opening and immersive introduction to Moroccan music. Long considered a 20th-century literary ...