Algeria: Music of Gourara - Song Accompanied on the Amzad | Текст песни

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The amzad, or imzad, is a bowed fiddle with a resonator consisting of half a calabash covered with skin. The single string is made of twisted horsehair.

In the Touareg world the amzad has an important symbolic value. It is played only by women of noble status, and they perform on it during the gatherings known as ahal, a tasteful evening entertainment at which the singers vie with one another in a poetry contest. At the time of the rezzou the feats of warriors were narrated to the sound of the amzad, and if the women declined to play the instrument is amounted to a humiliation after a defeat.

In the south, similar instruments are found as far as Chad and Nigeria, while in the north the amzad appeared to be unknown beyond the Ahaggar and the Tassili n Ajjer. Its occurence in Gourara was therefore unexpected, but it is played here by a man who uses it to accompany repertoire of laments in an Arabic dialect.

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