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For the electronic band, see Joujouka (band).
Zahjouka, Jajouka or Joujouka (جوجوكة or جهجوكة) is a village in the Ahl-Srif mountains in the southern Rif, Morocco. The mountains are named after the Ahl-Srif tribe who populate the region.
The musical heritage
Zahjouka is well known as home to the Sufi trance musicians the Master Musicians of Joujouka, and two members of Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar. The village attracted the attention of writers Paul Bowles and William Burroughs in the 1950s because the Sufi trance musicians there appeared to still celebrate the rites of the god Pan. Brion Gysin, who had been introduced to the master musicians by Mohamed Hamri, propagated this idea. Gysin linked the village's Boujeloud festival, where a boy sewn in goat skins danced with sticks while the musicians play to keep him at bay, to the ancient "Rites of Pan". In 1967 and 1968 Brian Jones, lead guitarist with The Rolling Stones, visited the village; at the end of his stay, he recorded the master musicians for the LP Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka. The LP was released on Rolling Stones Records in 1971, some two years after Jones' death. The release brought an influx of westerners, including some who later recorded there, such as Ornette Coleman and Bill Laswell.
Life
Subsistence farming is the main activity of most Jajouki. The main crops are olives, tillage of vegetables such as carrots, turnips, potatoes, and the raising of sheep, which are grazed out on common land. Poultry are raised by the women. In the summer shepherd boys bring the herds to the higher slopes. They can be heard practicing on bamboo flutes from miles away. The livestock, chickens and high quality olive oil provide a cash element in this economy. There is also small-scale honey production by some enterprising villagers. In recent years, electricity and mobile telephony have arrived in the village and there is a passable road, which has reduced the cost of transporting essential goods to the village. The cost of transportation had previously made many items unavailable or prohibitively expensive to the villagers. The Ahl-Srif was also an area where kif (cannabis) was grown, but its cultivation has been recently prohibited. However, there seems to be no alternative cash crop for those who had depended on it in the past.
Further reading
- Hamri, Mohamed (1975), "Tales of Joujouka". Capra Press.
- Palmer, Robert (October 14, 1971). "Jajouka: Up the Mountain". Rolling Stone..
- Davis, Stephen (2001). Old Gods Almost Dead. Broadway Books, 135–37, 172, 195–201, 227; 233–34, 248–53, 270, 354, 504–505, 508.
- Strauss, Neil (October 12, 1995). "The Pop Life: To Save Jajouka, How About a Mercedes in the Village?". The New York Times.
See also
- Master Musicians of Joujouka
- Mohamed Hamri
- Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar
- Music of Morocco
External links
- Official site of Master Musicians of Joujouka
- Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar. Official site
- Campion, Chris (August 1995). "Night Spirit Masters", "The Wire". Click link for article pdf
- Ranaldo, Lee (August 1996). "Into The Mystic". The Wire. Retrieved Jan. 14, 2007
- Fariborz, Arian (2005). "The Master Musicians of Joujouka: The Faded Myth of the Goat-God". Qantara.de. Retrieved Jan. 14, 2007.
- "Master Musicians of Joujouka Cavort With Corgan" Report re Billy Corgan in the village. Pitchfork (August 29, 2006). Retrieved Jan. 14, 2007.
- Obituary of Hamri the man who first brought Jones/Burroughs and Gysin to his home village and who organised the recording of the L.P. (Refs violence following reissue of Brian Jones album)from The Independent (London, 19 Oct 2000) pdf download of original article at bottom of text.
- Rynne, Frank (January 2006). "Joujouka Comes Into the 21st Century". The Handstand. Retrieved Jan. 16, 2007.
- Sole, Deanne (November 19, 2006). "The Master Musicians of Joujouka: Boujeloud". Pop Matters. Retrieved Jan. 16, 2007
- Review of latest CD "Boujeloud" by The Master Musicians of Joujouka on Dusted.com
- MSN World Atlas Map of Jajouka, Morocco
- A website about Moroccan music
- A website about Moroccan trance music with Jilali LP recorded at Jajouka
35°02′N 5°44′W / 35.033°N 5.733°W / 35.033; -5.733
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