World of Aita

The songs of the Moroccan Atlantic plains are songs related to the rain, the harvests, the plowing, the loves and the lavishness of a generous nature which does not count its benefits. The bounty of nature responds to the song of fulfilled men and women. This hymn varies considerably from one region to another but always in the same register that of a happy rurality. But sometimes, when necessary, Aïta can be a song of liberation against the oppressor, of struggle against injustice and for the emancipation of men and women. Former caïds known as the protectorate have been the subject of songs of denunciation and revolt which marked entire generations. The festive lightness in which some want to maintain this ancestral art does not hold up because Aïta is first and foremost the expression of a dense and prolific human epic