Reggada is a Moroccan Berber musical genre and traditional war dance from Beni Znassen/Aït Iznasen tribes of north-east

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

(Provinces of

Oujda Oujda ( ar, وجدة; ber, ⵡⵓⵊⴷⴰ, Wujda) is a major Moroccan city in its northeast near the border with Algeria. Oujda is the capital city of the Oriental region of northeastern Morocco and has a population of about 558,000 people. It ...

Berkane Berkane ( ber, translit=Berkane, ⴱⴻⵔⴽⴰⵏ) is a city in northeastern Morocco, in the tribal area of Aït Iznasen, limited by the Mediterranean to the north, the Kis river (Moroccan-Algerian border) and Oujda Province in the east, Nador ...

and Taourirt). It is very similar to the Allaoui musical genre native to eastern

, that arose around the same time as Reggada.

History

Aït Iznasen Berber tribes have traditional war dance and music after victory over the enemy, and thus the use of weapons and foot strikes in the rhythm of music.

Location

Reggada music is published in the vicinity of the north east regions of Morocco, especially in the city of Aïn Regadda in Berkane Province . It is popular in provinces such as :

, Taourirt,

Nador Nador ( Riffian-Berber: ⵏⴰⴷⵓⵔ) is a coastal city and provincial capital in the northeastern Rif region of Morocco with a population of about 161,726 (2014 census). Nador city is separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a salt lagoon nam ...

Al Hoceima Al Hoceima ( ber, translit=Lḥusima, label= Riffian-Berber, ⵍⵃⵓⵙⵉⵎⴰ; ar, الحسيمة; '' es, Alhucemas'') is a Riffian city in the north of Morocco, on the northern edge of the Rif Mountains and on the Mediterranean coast. It i ...

, Taza,

Ben Taieb Ben Taieb (Tarifit: Ben Ṭayeb, ⴱⴻⵏ ⵟⴰⵢⴻⴱ; Arabic: ابن الطيب) is a town in Driouch Province, Oriental, Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region ...

etc.

Dance and music

The dance is characterised with the masters (locally called sheikhs). These masters play music and dance using several traditional instruments such as Bendri,

Ghaita The ''rhaita'' or ''ghaita'' ( ar, غيطة) is a double reed instrument from North Africa. It is nearly identical in construction to the Arabic '' mizmar'' and the Turkish ''zurna''. The distinctive name owes to a medieval Gothic-Iberian influ ...

and Zmmar which is a kind of

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

with two horns typically found in Africa. The dancers move their shoulders, a rifle or a stick and strike the groin against the floor to the rhythm of drums. The music often tells stories about topics such as love, emotions of sadness and happiness. From the late 1980s,

music synthesizer Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music. Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western counterpo ...

are increasingly widely used.

References

Moroccan music {{Morocco-stub