| Description |
1 online resource (53 minutes) |
| Summary |
On the borders of a thousand-year-old culture. This is where Frank Cassenti's camera starts out in "Gnawa Music, Body and Soul," a sensitive and enchanted road movie that won the 2011 Sacem Prize for Best Creative Documentary. Descendants of slaves from West Africa, the Gnawas knew how to safeguard the songs and initiation rites of their ancestors, even used for trance states during lilas, those long magical nights when the invisible worlds are invited to the festival to heal mortals, like in Haitian voodoo or Brazilian candomblé. "Gnawa Music, Body and Soul" goes to the edge of the desert to meet great masters such as Maâlems Mahmoud Guinea and Abdellah "Boulkhair" El Gourd, grasping the spiritual and vibratory significance of Gnawa music |
| Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed November 30, 2022) |
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In French, with interviews in Arabic and English with English subtitles |
| Subject |
Music -- Morocco
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Moroccans -- Music
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Cassenti, Frank, filmmaker
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Oléo Films, production company
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ARTE France, production company
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Qwest TV, publisher
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