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Tuareg Camel Folk Music
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Tuareg Camel Folk Music

In this episode, we take a camel-back trip across the Sahara and discover how the Tuareg have immortalized their most beloved animal companion in word and song.

Tuareg camel names reflect their colorful variety and unique characteristics!

Some Tuareg camel names

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References

  • Andah, Bassey, et al. The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns. Routledge, 2014. pp 65 – 66

  • Camels, Sand, and Celebration: The Tuareg Festival

  • Rasmussen, Susan J. “Within the Tent and at the Crossroads: Travel and Gender Identity among the Tuareg of Niger.” Ethos, vol. 26, no. 2, 1998, pp. 153–82. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/640675. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.

  • Rennell, Francis James Rennell Rodd Baron, and Rennell Rodd. People of the Veil: Being an Account of the Habits, Organisation and History of the Wandering Tuareg Tribes which Inhabit the Mountains of Air, Or Asben in the Central Sahara. MacMillan, 1926. p195

  • Rodd, Peter Rennell, et al. “Translations of Tuareg Poems.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, vol. 5, no. 1, 1928, pp. 109–12. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/607787. Accessed 21 Apr. 2024.

  • Standifer, James A. “The Tuareg: Their Music and Dances.” The Black Perspective in Music, vol. 16, no. 1, 1988, pp. 45–62. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1215126. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.

  • Stone, Ruth M., ed. The Garland Handbook of African Music. New York: Routledge, 2008. p269

  • What Are Desert Blues? The Wonderful World of Tuareg Music

Songs/Sound Effects (in order of occurrence and with repetitions)

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