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De-orientalizing the ‘Aita and Re-orienting the Shikhat
- Author(s):
- Alessandra Ciucci (see profile)
- Date:
- 2010
- Group(s):
- Ethnomusicology, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies
- Subject(s):
- Ethnomusicology, North Africa, Orientalism, Postcolonialism, Women's studies
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/zgvd-rx61
- Abstract:
- 'Aita is a sung poetry practiced by professional female singer-dancers known as shikhat along the Moroccan Atlantic plains and plateaus. By focusing on the discourses and politics employed in the revalorization of the 'aita, this ethnographic investigation will show how the official incorporation of the 'aita into the Moroccan heritage has affected the sung poetry and its performers.
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- Published as:
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge Scholars
- Pub. Date:
- 2010
- Book Title:
- French Orientalism: Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other
- Author/Editor:
- Desmond Hosford and Chong J. Wojtkowski
- Page Range:
- 71 - 96
- ISBN:
- 9781443823180
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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