- Jajouka
:"For the electronic band, see
Joujouka (band) ."Jajouka, Joujouka or Zahjoukah [cite book |last=Geiger |first=John |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Nothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=2005 |month= |publisher=The Disinformation Company |location= |language= |isbn=1-9328-5712-5 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=p.114 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote=Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah in Walter Armbrust (ed.), "Mass Mediations, New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and beyond", (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000 p.151). Another spelling is Joujouka and a more unusual variant is Zahjoukah, although Jajouka, considered more accurate phonetically, seems to have become more common. ] (جوجوكة or جهجوكة) is a village in the Ahl-Srif mountains in the southernRif ,Morocco . The mountains are named after the Ahl-Srif tribe who populate the region.The musical heritage
Jajouka or Zahjouka is well known as home to the
Sufi trance musicians theMaster Musicians of Joujouka and some members ofMaster Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar . The village attracted the attention of writersPaul Bowles andWilliam 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 byMohamed Hamri , propagated this idea. Gysin linked the village's Boujeloud festival, where a boy sewn ingoat skin s danced with sticks while the musicians play to keep him at bay, to the ancient "Rites of Pan". In 1967 and 1968Brian Jones , lead guitarist withThe Rolling Stones , visited the village; at the end of his stay, he recorded the master musicians for the LPBrian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka . The LP was released onRolling Stones Records in 1971, some two years after Jones' death. This original recording was controversially reissued in 1995 by Point Music as "Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan At Jajouka". Hamri launched an international protest to highlight the usurpation of the villagers heritage and non payment of royalties to the original musicians. The music from this village attracted an influx of westerners, including some who later recorded there, such asOrnette Coleman andBill Laswell .Life
Subsistence farming is the main activity of most of the villagers living in Jajouka. 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 flute s 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 andmobile 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.Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival
The village hosts a festival on 29th July 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Brian Jones recording, on 29 July 1968, the most famous L.P. recorded in the village
Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka on 29th July 2008. [www.joujouka.net]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".References and notes
External links
* [http://chardman.sauceruney.com/music/shows/7.05.08/OW_Joujouka.mp3 Link to Interview with Frank Rynne on KBoo FM Portland, Oregon, 5 July 2008 on Joujouka music and history, Sufism, William Burroughs Brion Gysin and Brian Jones]
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