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- noun Any member of an
ethnic group andSufi religious order inMorocco .
Etymologies
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Gnawa music mixes classical Islamic Sufism with pre-Islamic African traditions.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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It was there I heard the theory that the blues traces back through the Diaspora back to Africa, back to the Gnawa.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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Gnawa music mixes classical Islamic Sufism with pre-Islamic African traditions.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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It was there I heard the theory that the blues traces back through the Diaspora back to Africa, back to the Gnawa.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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While adopting Islam Gnawa continued to celebrate ritual possession devoted to dances of fright.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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Gnawa music mixes classical Islamic Sufism with pre-Islamic African traditions.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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It was there I heard the theory that the blues traces back through the Diaspora back to Africa, back to the Gnawa.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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Gnawa refers to an ethnic group- religious order descended from former slaves from Sub-Saharan Africa, who marched in caravans that stopped in the Kasbahs on the trade route north, some of whom stayed and assimilated.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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In one eddy of the square I watch an ensemble of barefooted leaping, spinning Gnawa musicians in their white garments and twirling tasseled caps.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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Popular history credits the Moroccan Sultan Ahmed Al Mansour Ad-Dahbi's conquest in 1591 of part of the Songhai Empire, in particular Timbuktu, with bringing large numbers of captives and slaves back across the Sahara to form the Gnawa.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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