Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture

MOROCCO COLLECTIONS
IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE

Compiled by: Reinhardt Schuhmann, Kenneth Schweitzer, and Jud Wellington
Series Editor: Ann Hoog

AFS 12,062: Donald Kissil Collection of Berber & Southern Moroccan Music
One 7-inch tape of music of southern Morocco and Berber Arabs recorded in Marrakech, Morocco, by Donald Kissil, in March, April, and November 1962. Some commentary on tape describing the songs. The collection includes a 3-page log. (30 minutes; LWO 4100)

AFS 14,280-14,291: Abraham Pinto Recordings of Sephardic Jewish and Berber Music in Morocco
Twelve 10-inch discs of Sephardic Jewish liturgical music from Morocco, with some Berber music from Morocco. Recorded by Abraham Pinto. The collection includes a 5-page letter containing information about the recordings [note: the handwriting is very poor]. There is also a 17-page booklet containing Hebrew script and two postcards. (48 hours; LWO 6122)

AFC 1960/001: The Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection
Seventy 7-inch tapes, two 12-inch discs, 1.25 linear feet of manuscripts, and 18 black-and-white photographs of Moroccan folk, popular, and art music. Recorded by Paul Bowels ca. 1960-1962. [catalog record]

AFS 11,623-11,687: Sixty-five tapes containing folk, art, and popular music of Morocco. (65 hours; LWO 3068)

AFS 12,016-12,020: Five tapes containing folk music from Morocco. (5 hours; LWO 3863)

AFC 1990/036: Hanukkah, Feast of Dedication, Festival of Lights: Lecture and Workshop on Hanukkah Foods of Lebanon, Turkey and Morocco, December 14, 1990
Demonstrations and discussion of Hanukkah foods of the Sephardic traditions, featuring demonstrators Annie Totah, of Beirut, Lebanon, Denise Suissa, of Casablanca, Morocco, and Dina Doron, of Ankara, Turkey. Introduced by folklorist Devorah S. Sperling. Foods prepared by participants and sampled by audience.

AFC 1993/007: "Reflections on a Journey to Morocco: Songs and Stories of the Sephardic Jews," Lecture by Henrietta Yurchenco
Henrietta Yuchenco lecture titled "Reflections on a Journey to Morocco: Songs and Stories of the Sephardic Jews," on Thursday, April 22, 1993, 4:30-5:30 pm, Dining Room A, Library of Congress, co-sponsored by the American Folklife Center and other Library of Congress Divisions.

AFC 1999/022: Henrietta Yurchenco Collection from Spain and Morocco
The collection consists of Yurchenco's field recordings in the southern, western, and central provinces of Spain, the Balearic Islands, and Tangier and Tetuan, Morocco. Featured are ballads, wedding songs, and stories of the Sephardic Jews.

AFC 2004/004: Alan Lomax Collection
Eight hundred forty-five linear feet (appx. 150 linear feet manuscripts; 10,000 sound recordings; 5,500 graphic images; 5,000 moving images created and collected by Alan Lomax and others in their work documenting song, music, dance, and body movement from many cultures. Includes field recordings and photographs he made in the Bahamas, the Caribbean, England, France, Georgia, Haiti, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Spain, the United States, and Wales, 1930s-2004.

AFC 2004/004:T2086-2099; T3000-3006: Twenty-one tapes containing Arab and Berber music. Recorded in Aguelmous, Dades Valley, Erfoud, Fès, Ksar El Souk, Marrakech, Ourika Valley, Ouarzazate, and Tinjdad, Morocco, by Alan Lomax and Joan Halifax, September 1967.

AFC 2004/004:MV22634-2640, 2643: Ten 8mm film reels containing Arab and Berber music. Recorded in Aguelmous, Dades Valley, Erfoud, Fès, Ksar El Souk, Marrakech, Ourika Valley, Ouarzazate, and Tinjdad, Morocco, by Alan Lomax and Joan Halifax, September 1967.