After a bullet nearly killed him while he served as a freedom fighter in the ’90s, Toumast founder Moussag Ag Kenya came to the sensible realization that guitars speak louder than guns—or, at the very ...

Mdou Moctar plays a style of desert blues called “ishumar,” which is technically a new genre. Rock ‘n’ roll audiences have begun to embrace the music of Moctar and his colleagues because there’s ...

The guitar-based, rock-influenced revolutionary Desert Blues pioneered by Tinariwen 30 years ago has influenced a whole new generation of Tuareg musicians, 12 of whose hard-to-get recordings have been ...

Andy Morgan is a freelance author and journalist based in Bristol, England. He worked in music for twenty years, ending up as manager of Tuareg rockers Tinariwen, before giving up show business to ...

The Ishumar guitar : emergence, circulation and evolution, from diasporic performances to the world scene / Nadia Belalimat Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...