Mawazine Music Festival: Rabat, 16-24 May, 2008
The Mawazine Festival will open its 7th edition in Rabat on the 16th of May. The word Mawazine evokes, taken in the plural, the diversity of songs, dances and rhythms. This diversity is manifested through the participation of forty countries, and the organisation of over a hundred concerts. This 7th edition of the event will have a jazzy or Tzigane flavour.
Jazz refers to the emergence of an Afro-American musical identity and a liberating movement. In its valorisation of orality, its rhythmical conception, as well as its call into question of moderate tones, jazz shows forth as an alternative beat adrift from a music that sits at the polar opposite of the spontaneity characteristic of African rhythms. Tzigane music is very much represented throughout an itinerary that stretches from India, the native land of the Tzigane, through Turkey, with Hassan Yrimdunia, the Taraf of Haidouks in Romania, all the way to Goran Bregovic, who celebrates a mixture of styles, and sends out a firework of music and voices that have no borders. The Arab world and Moroccan song are equally honoured in this edition of Mawazine.
An international colloquium - entitled “World Music and Cultural Diversity”- will add up to the musical spectacle a discourse that claims diversity as a factor of richness for human beings, a source of openness that breaks away from the narrowness of the unique model as well as from hegemonic culture.
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