I had the pleasure of hosting an in-studio visit by members of the group Innov Gnawa earlier this week at KCRW, and I was entranced by the powerful rhythms and chants. Gnawa is Moroccan trance music, ...

RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco's Gnawa, heirs to a musical and spiritual tradition brought north across the Sahara centuries ago by black slaves, are enjoying new fame as their hypnotic rhythms ...

Gnawa music is often likened to American blues and gospel. Gnawa music is a mixture of African rhythms and Islamic poetry created by enslaved West Africans brought to Morocco. For centuries, it was ...

Saha Gnawa joins a long list of ensembles that offer a fresh take on the renowned healing musical tradition of Morocco and Algeria. Gnawa music, with its loping, cyclic grooves and pentatonic scales, ...

Unlike Europe, holidays in Morocco – which is under 3 hours away from the UK – remain extraordinarily good value for money. Why not travel to Essaouira on the coast at the end of June, before the ...

Introduction: Becoming Gnawa -- From Enslavement to Gnawa: Historical Postcards and the Construction of Gnawa Identity -- Black Women, Photographic Representation, and Female Agency -- Fraja ...

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 ...