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	=== References and further reading ===		=== References and further reading ===
	~~<references />~~

	* [https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/collections/CNRSMH_E_1997_006_001/ Berber musical traditions of the High and Anti-Atlas — CREM-CNRS collection]		* [https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/collections/CNRSMH_E_1997_006_001/ Berber musical traditions of the High and Anti-Atlas — CREM-CNRS collection]

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	== Contemporary and trending ==		== Contemporary and trending ==
	Ahwash ~~continues through village celebrations~~, ~~community groups, migration~~-~~linked occasions~~ and ~~staged presentation~~. ~~These settings do~~ not ~~all ask participants to do the same thing~~. ~~A short public performance may compress the form, while a familiar gathering allows more time for poetic exchange and local response~~. ~~Research~~ and ~~archives preserve particular examples~~, ~~not a universal model for every community~~. ~~Contemporary continuity involves people making the occasion work again~~, ~~learning words and timing through participation~~, and ~~negotiating how a local practice is represented to wider audiences~~. <ref name="ahwash-~~poetry~~">[https://~~www~~.~~persee~~.fr/~~doc~~/~~horma_0984~~-~~2616_2000_num_43_1_1914 Une joute poétique des Inddamn — Lahsen Hira~~, ~~Horizons Maghrébins~~].</ref>
			Ahwash remains locally differentiated. In a July 2025 interview, Tissint troupe leader Ali al-Sheikhi describes a local dance’s ceremonial meaning within Tata’s oasis world. The Ministry’s October 2026 Ouarzazate programme separately announces workshops and encounters among different Ahwash forms. As of 19 October, that event is still scheduled for 22–24 October; it is not reported here as completed. <ref name="africa2026-ma-ahwash-tissint">[https://www.snrtnews.com/article/130893 Khawla Aznizni and Ayoub Mohieddine, أحواش تيسينت.. رقصة الخطوبة أو الخنجر التي تجسد ذاكرة طاطا, SNRT News, 14 July 2025]. Access note: Indexed substantial opening and named practitioner passage read; direct page returned 403. No film/audio accessed.</ref> <ref name="africa2026-ma-ahwash-2026">[https://mjcc.gov.ma/ar/ورزازات-تحتفي-بفنون-أحواش-في-دورتها-ال/ Moroccan Ministry of Culture, Ouarzazate fourteenth Ahwash festival announcement, 6 October 2026]. Access note: Full indexed Arabic announcement read.</ref>

	== History ==		== History ==
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	== Geography and communities ==		== Geography and communities ==
	The ~~main~~ landscape ~~spans the~~ Souss and ~~connected western~~ High Atlas and Anti-Atlas ~~communities~~, ~~including villages~~, ~~agricultural country~~ and the ~~routes between them~~. ~~Broad overlapping fields express the mountain–valley~~ cultural ~~corridor better than isolated Agadir and Ouarzazate circles~~. A ~~softer Casablanca~~/~~Atlantic migration field represents carried practice and community reorganization outside~~ the ~~heartland~~. The ~~geography keeps~~ Ahwash ~~distinct from Middle Atlas Ahidous while acknowledging related collective performance values~~. It ~~does~~ not ~~claim that every Tashelhit speaker participates identically or that all southern Moroccan music shares one form~~.
			The landscape connects Souss/Anti-Atlas communities, western and central High Atlas settings, and the eastern Anti-Atlas/Drâa transition. Local poetry, group relationships and ceremonial conventions vary within this space. Rovsing Olsen’s ethnomusicological work treats collective performance through its social and agricultural relationships, while the Tissint account supplies a specific contemporary eastern example. <ref name="africa2026-ma-ahwash-olsen">[https://librairie.philharmoniedeparis.fr/musiques-monde/chants-danses-atlas Miriam Rovsing Olsen, Chants et danses de l’Atlas (Maroc), Actes Sud/Cité de la musique, 1997]. Access note: Publisher synopsis, author research scope and contents read; book body and accompanying media not accessed.</ref> <ref name="africa2026-ma-ahwash-tissint" />

			Ahwash should not be spread over all Amazigh-speaking Morocco, nor reduced to the professional itinerant Rwais tradition. Older scholarship distinguishes those performance institutions even where they draw on related cultural resources. A former northern urban extension is omitted because migration or a festival appearance alone does not establish an equally coherent adopted Ahwash landscape. <ref name="africa2026-ma-schuyler">[https://publish.iupress.indiana.edu/read/the-study-of-folk-music-in-the-modern-world/section/2ab77c17-a5eb-4b3e-bfff-fec6939c1efb Philip V. Bohlman, The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World (1988), chapter6, discussion of Schuyler’s Rwais/Ahwash research]. Access note: Relevant indexed Rwais/Ahwash passages read. Public publisher reader identifies author as Bohlman. It is not Schuyler’s1979article and the full chapter was not obtained/read.</ref>

	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
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	* [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4810v5hj Narrative Remembrance: Close Encounters Between Muslims and Jews in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains]		* [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4810v5hj Narrative Remembrance: Close Encounters Between Muslims and Jews in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains]


			=== References and further reading ===
			<ref name="ahwash-poetry">[https://www.persee.fr/doc/horma_0984-2616_2000_num_43_1_1914 Une joute poétique des Inddamn — Lahsen Hira, Horizons Maghrébins].</ref>
			<references />

	== Hotspot mushrooms ==		== Hotspot mushrooms ==
	Ahwash is a continuous Tashelhit southern mountain/valley community landscape with meaningful urban migration, not a list of spectacular village troupes. Two broad related cores retain regional shape without filling all Morocco.

	~~These~~ fields ~~are~~ editorial ~~illustrations of~~ musical affinity and ~~cultural~~ reach, not ~~listener statistics~~. Radius ~~marks~~ the zero edge of ~~the~~ fade; ~~overlapping fields of this~~ genre combine by maximum.		Three connected southern Moroccan landscapes distinguish Souss/Anti-Atlas, High Atlas and eastern Anti-Atlas/Drâa practices. Regional continuity includes villages and ceremonial relationships; national festival presentation is not a new national heartland.

			The fields express editorial judgments about relative musical affinity and reach, not measured audience shares. Radius is the zero edge of a linear fade; same-genre overlaps combine by maximum.

	{\| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"		{\| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
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	! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes		! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

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	\| ahwash-souss-anti-atlas \|\| Souss and Anti-Atlas Ahwash ~~landscape~~ \|\| 30 \|\| -8.6 \|\| ~~750~~ \|\| 1 \|\| ~~Villages, valleys and agricultural social networks~~.		\| ahwash-souss-anti-atlas-reviewed \|\| Souss and Anti-Atlas Ahwash landscapes \|\| 30 \|\| -8.6 \|\| 430 \|\| 0.8 \|\| Connected community performance with internal local forms.

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	\| ahwash-high-atlas \|\| Western High Atlas ~~and connected~~ Ahwash ~~landscape~~ \|\| 31.1 \|\| -6.5 \|\| ~~650~~ \|\| 0.92 \|\| Related ~~regional variants and communities~~.		\| ahwash-high-atlas-reviewed \|\| Western and central High Atlas Ahwash connections \|\| 31.1 \|\| -7.2 \|\| 410 \|\| 0.72 \|\| Related but varied mountain/village collective practices.

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	\| ahwash-~~urban~~-~~migration~~ \|\| ~~Atlantic Moroccan~~ Ahwash ~~community circuit~~ \|\| 33.3 \|\| -7.1 \|\| ~~480~~ \|\| 0.4 \|\| ~~Migration~~-~~linked carried practice rather than a second origin~~.		\| ahwash-eastern-transition \|\| Eastern Anti-Atlas and Drâa Ahwash connections \|\| 30.2 \|\| -6.8 \|\| 360 \|\| 0.68 \|\| Includes documented Tata/Tissint connection; not an all-Saharan extension.

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 | Ahwach youth ensemble of Taghramt || Wedding performance — Taghramt, 2025 || https://www.youtube.com/embed/-QnXty758eY || Community-channel footage identifies the youth ensemble, village and wedding setting. The extended local performance complements the existing Haha example and makes room for variation among Ahwash communities.<ref name="performance-ahwash-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QnXty758eY Ahwach youth ensemble of Taghramt — Wedding performance — Taghramt, 2025]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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	== Artists ==		== Artists ==
	Local poets, drummers, singers and organized participants are the central practitioners. The documented Ensemble Aït Iktel, led in the presenter archive by Hadj Mohammed Amahan, offers a specific High Atlas entry point rather than a template for the entire region. Other communities and group leaders should be named in relation to particular performances and repertoires. The artistry includes the ability to improvise or recognize poetry, sustain collective timing and understand the occasion. Those skills cannot be represented adequately by a fabricated celebrity canon modeled on a commercial pop genre. <ref name="ahwash-adem" />		Local poets, drummers, singers and organized participants are the central practitioners. The documented Ensemble Aït Iktel, led in the presenter archive by Hadj Mohammed Amahan, offers a specific High Atlas entry point rather than a template for the entire region. Other communities and group leaders should be named in relation to particular performances and repertoires. The artistry includes the ability to improvise or recognize poetry, sustain collective timing and understand the occasion. Those skills cannot be represented adequately by a fabricated celebrity canon modeled on a commercial pop genre. <ref name="ahwash-adem" />

			== Representative performances ==
			These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

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			\| Ahwach Haha ensemble (individual performers uncredited) \|\| Ahwach Haha — Moroccan Amazigh ensemble performance \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/vsZOB4mbXBY \|\| The producer identifies this as Haha ahwach, a regional form of collective Amazigh singing and dance. The ensemble is not individually named in the source; it is not attributed to the uploading label as an artist.<ref name="performance-ahwash-1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZOB4mbXBY Ahwach Haha ensemble (individual performers uncredited) — Ahwach Haha — Moroccan Amazigh ensemble performance]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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			\| Ahwach youth ensemble of Taghramt \|\| Wedding performance — Taghramt, 2025 \|\| https://www.youtube.com/embed/-QnXty758eY \|\| Community-channel footage identifies the youth ensemble, village and wedding setting. The extended local performance complements the existing Haha example and makes room for variation among Ahwash communities.<ref name="performance-ahwash-2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QnXty758eY Ahwach youth ensemble of Taghramt — Wedding performance — Taghramt, 2025]. YouTube recording; metadata checked 2026-10-18.</ref>
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	== Related genres ==		== Related genres ==
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== Summary ==
Ahwash, also written ahwach or ahouach, is a southern Moroccan Amazigh collective performance field joining sung poetry, percussion and coordinated dance. It is particularly associated with Tashelhit-speaking communities of the Souss, High Atlas and Anti-Atlas. The term can refer to a larger celebration rather than a single musical piece. Local forms differ, but a shared principle is that words, sound and collective movement make social relationships public. Reducing the practice to an attractive row of dancers misses the poetic knowledge and interaction that give it direction. <ref name="ahwash-adem">[https://archives.adem-geneve.com/archives/maroc/awash.html La nuit berbère: L’Ahwash du Haut-Atlas — Ateliers d’ethnomusicologie].</ref>

== Contemporary and trending ==
Ahwash continues through village celebrations, community groups, migration-linked occasions and staged presentation. These settings do not all ask participants to do the same thing. A short public performance may compress the form, while a familiar gathering allows more time for poetic exchange and local response. Research and archives preserve particular examples, not a universal model for every community. Contemporary continuity involves people making the occasion work again, learning words and timing through participation, and negotiating how a local practice is represented to wider audiences. <ref name="ahwash-poetry">[https://www.persee.fr/doc/horma_0984-2616_2000_num_43_1_1914 Une joute poétique des Inddamn — Lahsen Hira, Horizons Maghrébins].</ref>

== History ==
The practice belongs to southern Moroccan histories of oral poetry, communal celebration and regional social life. Scholars and cultural presenters have documented specific villages and local variants, while twentieth-century migration brought community practices into new urban environments. Festival and heritage presentation added another public layer. The history should not be told as the movement of a fixed village artifact into a city that simply preserves or corrupts it. Musicians, poets and dancers actively adapt expectations, and their relationships to home communities remain meaningful even when a performance takes place elsewhere.

== Musical characteristics ==
Listen for a poetic statement and the responses it invites, with frame drums, clapping and collective voice creating an organized rhythmic environment. In some settings, verbal contest or exchange precedes and shapes the dance's intensification. The formation and movement of groups are part of the form, not an optional visual accompaniment. A listener unfamiliar with the language can still follow changes of entry, density and rhythmic emphasis, but contextual translation reveals another level of wit and judgment. Different villages may distribute roles and sections differently. <ref name="ahwash-poetry" />

== Geography and communities ==
The main landscape spans the Souss and connected western High Atlas and Anti-Atlas communities, including villages, agricultural country and the routes between them. Broad overlapping fields express the mountain–valley cultural corridor better than isolated Agadir and Ouarzazate circles. A softer Casablanca/Atlantic migration field represents carried practice and community reorganization outside the heartland. The geography keeps Ahwash distinct from Middle Atlas Ahidous while acknowledging related collective performance values. It does not claim that every Tashelhit speaker participates identically or that all southern Moroccan music shares one form.

== Artists ==
Local poets, drummers, singers and organized participants are the central practitioners. The documented Ensemble Aït Iktel, led in the presenter archive by Hadj Mohammed Amahan, offers a specific High Atlas entry point rather than a template for the entire region. Other communities and group leaders should be named in relation to particular performances and repertoires. The artistry includes the ability to improvise or recognize poetry, sustain collective timing and understand the occasion. Those skills cannot be represented adequately by a fabricated celebrity canon modeled on a commercial pop genre. <ref name="ahwash-adem" />

== Related genres ==
Ahidous is a neighboring central Moroccan collective practice, and rrways song offers another Tashelhit poetic-musical world with different performance organization. Shared language, percussion or a group formation does not make those traditions interchangeable. Comparative scholarship can illuminate their social and musical relationships while preserving local names. Ahwash is especially useful for understanding why a genre category may encompass an event: the poem, ensemble, bodily alignment and public relationship create the music together. Separating one rhythmic pattern from that larger form gives only a partial account.

=== References and further reading ===
<references />

* [https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/collections/CNRSMH_E_1997_006_001/ Berber musical traditions of the High and Anti-Atlas — CREM-CNRS collection]

* [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4810v5hj Narrative Remembrance: Close Encounters Between Muslims and Jews in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains]

== Hotspot mushrooms ==
Ahwash is a continuous Tashelhit southern mountain/valley community landscape with meaningful urban migration, not a list of spectacular village troupes. Two broad related cores retain regional shape without filling all Morocco.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

{| class="wikitable muglobe-hotspots"
|+ MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms
! ID !! Location !! Latitude !! Longitude !! Radius (km) !! Strength !! Notes

|-
| ahwash-souss-anti-atlas || Souss and Anti-Atlas Ahwash landscape || 30 || -8.6 || 750 || 1 || Villages, valleys and agricultural social networks.

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| ahwash-high-atlas || Western High Atlas and connected Ahwash landscape || 31.1 || -6.5 || 650 || 0.92 || Related regional variants and communities.

|-
| ahwash-urban-migration || Atlantic Moroccan Ahwash community circuit || 33.3 || -7.1 || 480 || 0.4 || Migration-linked carried practice rather than a second origin.

|}