Moroccan Female Performers Defining the Social Body

Abstract

Shikhat are female performers in Moroccan society whose singing and dancing are central to allfestivity, including rites of passage like marriage ceremonies and birth and circumcision celebrations. Despite their centrality, however, shikhat are socially marginal due to the license that they exhibit both in performance and in their off-stage lives. This article examines the artistic and bodily competencies of the shikhat as they articulate some of the more powerful metaphors ofMoroccan identity, extending ultimately from embodiments of shame to embodiments of the one heterogeneous nation. If you're going to the heights

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