In the high valleys of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains - where some nearby peaks reach 13,000ft - live a people that call themselves the Amazigh, some of the original inhabitants of North Africa. Over 3000 years ago long before the Romans, Arabs, and French invaded, the Amazigh claimed these lands. in fact they lived across most of Maghreb region: everything North of the Sahara, west of the Nile and east of the Atlas Mountains. Ancient Greeks called them Berbers, or barbarians and for most the name has stuck. For centuries most of the Amazigh dialects have had no written form and those that were written have had to adapt to the changing alphabets of countless foreign invaders. So the Amazigh have had to rely intensely on oral traditions in order to preserve their ways. And one of the most interesting of these is poetry and song. Join me Andrew Reissiger as we travel from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco across North Africa and listen to the sounds of the Amazigh, today on World Tour.
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In the high valleys of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains - where some nearby peaks reach 13,000ft - live a people that call themselves the Amazigh, some of the original inhabitants of North Africa. Over 3000 years ago long before the Romans, Arabs, and French invaded, the Amazigh claimed these lands. in fact they lived across most of Maghreb region: everything North of the Sahara, west of the Nile and east of the Atlas Mountains. Ancient Greeks called them Berbers, or barbarians and for most the name has stuck. For centuries most of the Amazigh dialects have had no written form and those that were written have had to adapt to the changing alphabets of countless foreign invaders. So the Amazigh have had to rely intensely on oral traditions in order to preserve their ways. And one of the most interesting of these is poetry and song. Join me Andrew Reissiger as we travel from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco across North Africa and listen to the sounds of the Amazigh, today on World Tour.
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Aired statewide on Georgia Public Broadcasting Nov 5, 2006.
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In the high valleys of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains - where some nearby peaks reach 13,000ft - live a people that call themselves the Amazigh, some of the original inhabitants of North Africa. Over 3000 years ago, long before the Romans, Arabs, and French invaded, the Amazigh claimed these lands. In fact they lived across most of Maghreb region - everything North of the Sahara, west of the Nile and east of the Atlas Mountains. Ancient Greeks called them Berbers, or barbarians, and for most the name has stuck. For centuries most of the Amazigh dialects have had no written form and those that were written have had to adapt to the changing alphabets of countless foreign invaders. So the Amazigh have had to rely intensely on oral traditions in order to preserve their ways. And one of the most interesting of these is poetry and song. Join me Andrew Reissiger as we travel from the Atla...
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| Inna Hmna | Rais Mohand | 00:00 | |||
| Rebbi Zayd i wuggug | Albensir | 00:00 | |||
| Lmizan | Archach | 00:00 | |||
| Gnawa Essaouira | Gnawa Diffusion | 00:00 | |||
| Argan | Archach | 00:00 | |||
| Ufix d ikenz ur ihekem yan | Albensir | 00:00 | |||
| Warja fellah a xuti yan termit a ddunti | Albensir | 00:00 | |||
| Igh Istara udar inu | Lhadj Belaid | 00:00 | |||
| Tenere Dafed Nikchan | Tinariwen | 00:00 | |||
| Hemsirya | Raissa Rkia Demsirya | 00:00 | |||
| Ad as cex azzin | Rouicha | 00:00 | |||
| iIkbayene | Tartit | 00:00 | |||
| Ichichila | Tartit | 00:00 | |||
| Illok Illok | Imaran | 00:00 | |||
| Le Chant Des Fauves | Tinariwen | 00:00 | |||
| Id is ur tmyart | Rais Mohand | 00:00 | |||
| Dek ilalane | Amadou et Mariam avec Hamid El Kasri | 00:00 | |||
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