The Peoples of Morocco Among the countries of North Africa, Morocco offers the richest, most vibrant and diversified musical tradition and the most articulated contemporary documentation of the many stylistic cultural roots of so-called White African culture. The character of the music heard today in Morocco is a result of the many complex historical vicissitudes of the country, of its ethnic make-up and geographical location.
The majority of Moroccans are Berbers, a large and varied ethnic group whose ancestors once occupied most of Northern Africa from the Atlantic coast of Mauritania to the Red Sea, and in Morocco more than anywhere else, still maintain a certain numerical consistency and a specific cultural identity despite integration with other ethnic groups. In various historical epochs the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines and Turks tried to occupy Berber territories, but only the Arabs managed to...
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