Timothy D. Fuson (University of California, Berkeley)

Submitted: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:33:47 -0800


Timothy D. Fuson
Ph.D. student in Ethnomusicology

Mail address:
Department of Music
University of California
107 Morrison Hall, #1200
Berkeley, California  94720  USA

phone:   510-525-6538
e-mail:  fuson@uclink4.berkeley.edu

My primary research interest is the music of the Gnawa brotherhood of
Morocco.  The Gnawa are a religious fraternity comprised primarily of
descendants of slaves from the Western Sudan (Mali, Niger, Senegal). Their
rites include trance possession and healing ceremonies and pilgrimages to
the shrines of local saints.  I have spent a year in Morocco studying
music and currently perform in a Moroccan music ensemble in the San
Francisco area.  My academic interests include music in ritual, music in
Islamic societies, and folklore.

Publications and Papers presented:

1)  "Pandemonium renewed:  the legend of the Master Musicians of Jajouka".
Journal of the International Institute [Ann Arbor] 3/2 (winter 1996) 26-28.

2)  "Musical Imagining in Morocco:  The Voice of the Gnawa in the Music of
Nas al-Ghiwan".  Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology,
Pittsburgh, PA, October, 1997  and again at the Annual Meeting of the
Middle East Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, November, 1997.

3)  Liner notes to The Music of Islam, Volume Five:  'Aissaoua Sufi
Ceremony, Marrakech, Morocco.  Celestial Harmonies compact disc 14144-2.
Tucson, AZ:  Celestial Harmonies,  1997.

4)  Liner notes to The Music of Islam, Volume Six:  Al Maghrib, Gnawa
Music, Marrakech, Morocco.  Celestial Harmonies compact disc 14146-2.
Tucson, AZ:  Celestial Harmonies,  1997.

5)  Liner notes to The Music of Islam, Volume Seven:  Al-Andalus,
Andalusian Music.  Celestial Harmonies compact disc 14147-2.  Tucson, AZ:
Celestial Harmonies, 1998.