The Music of Morocco by Paul Bowles: Recent Episodes
Gerald Loftus
This blog is under construction. We hope that a researcher obtains a grant to load Bowles' music as podcasts, and uses his field notes to enrich what is a treasure of Moroccan music as it existed in mid-20th century.
As a very nice spinoff from last week's Radio Tangier interview, tonight 9 February 2012 will feature a special two-hour Paul Bowles program, midnight - 2:00 AM (Morocco time or GMT; this would be 7:00 to 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time in the US). Listeners across the world can tune...
The following track - Café Music of Tetuan - is Number 6 of the first of 72 CDs of our digitally remastered Moroccan Music by Paul Bowles, Library of Congress American Folklife Center collection. This site is still under construction; eventually we plan to use it to share this unique...
This site is under construction. Welcome to the site dedicated to the newly digitized recordings of Moroccan traditional music recorded by American writer and composer Paul Bowles in 1959. Bowles, a longtime resident of Tangier, received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to collect a sample of Moroccan folk music, which has...