Suilma Aali: the Song as Its Own Territory

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Factuality

Ownership

Saharawi music, because of its history and the geography of its people, is not a music of global markets but of jaima and desert. Before the arrival of phones, cassettes or USB drives, the songs traveled from mouth to mouth in homes, weddings and family meetings; and so the collective history was woven and preserved. To speak of Saharawi music is to speak of haul, the genre par excellence that combines poetry, percussion and strings into pieces …