Ait Hadiddu Field Recordings (Reel to Real Sound at the Pitt Rivers Museum)

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The Ait Hadiddu Field Recordings is a collection of recorded music archives stored at the Pitt Rivers Museum. The collection features European children's songs to Bayaka women's songs of the Central African Republic. The Pitt Rivers Museum website has thousands of hours of archival sounds held at the Museum in Oxford, England. It also includes information about other field collectors and their related collections.

This archive has six reel to reel tapes of Berber music and soundscapes from the Ait Hadiddu people from the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains, recorded in August 1961. They were purchased by the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1963. The recordings were made by members of the Oxford University Expedition who visited the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. A document giving context and song translations accompany the recordings.

The music from the recordings includes examples of violin and drum playing, men and women singing, and some soundscapes recorded in markets, inside a mosque, and some from a Festival in Rich. The recordings also include several examples of Berber poets singing love songs, beggars singing for charity in Rabat Market, and poets praising the Prophet and also the King of Morocco of the time, Hassain II.

The museum is available to the public, scholars and other audiences.

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Profile added by Ano Shumba on 20 Oct 2015
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