From urban bars to country weddings, Moroccan folk singers break barriers and keep traditions alive
Women folk singers are preserving one of Morocco’s most cherished culturual traditions, a genre of folk singing known as aita ...
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Moroccan folk singers break barriers and keep traditions alive
But despite aita’s position in Moroccan culture, the genre’s popularity does not always translate into acceptance for those who perform it. Cheikha are often stigmatized, eroticized ...
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From urban bars to country weddings, Moroccan folk singers break barriers and keep traditions alive
SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco (AP) — Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love, pain, and societal change to the ...