Toward an Open Archive of Jebala Music: Preserving a Peripheral Soundscape

Hicham Chami  |  Music  |  2025  |  Morocco

Toward an Open Archive of Jebala Music: Preserving a Peripheral Soundscape is a project digitizing and cataloging a historically marginalized and largely undocumented sound archive of approximately 6,000 recordings of Jebala music from northern Morocco.

Through detailed metadata organization, the project will lay the foundation for an open-access digital resource serving scholars, educators and the Jebala community, both in Morocco and across the diaspora.