TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Preface: A Musical Tamazgha: Idir’s Contributions to Amazighity
Aomar Boum, Brahim El Guabli and Katarzyna Pieprzak                                               1-2

Introduction
Nabil Boudraa, Oregon State University and Karim Ouaras, University of Oran 2/Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie                                                                                       3-7

PEER REVIEWED

1.     Recording Lightning: Popular Music and the Amazigh Cultural Movement of the 1970s
Ben Jones, Georgetown University                                                                                 8-25

2.     Musicalizing Indigeneity: Tazenzart as a Locus for Amazigh Indigenous Consciousness
Brahim El Guabli, Williams College                                                                         26-45

3.     ‘A Vava Inou va’ de Idir: Tissage et Transmission du conte (tamacahut) de la tradition Kabyle
Lyna Ami Ali, Emory University                                                                                 46-57                                                                                

ESSAYS

4.     Between Boston and At Yenni: Two Musical-Cultural Journeys
Jane E. Goodman, Indiana University                                                                           58-61

5.     Idir in the Amazigh Hinterlands
Paul A. Silverstein, Reed College                                                                                 62-65

6.     Idir and Mammeri: From the Particular to the Universal
Djamel At Ikken/Djamel Amrani                                                                                  66-72

7.     A Folk Artist and His Folk
Ignacio Villalón, Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)             73-76

8.     Idir’s Music and the Encounter of Globalism: Hybridity and the Aesthetic of Dissent
Kamel Igoudjil, DCPS, Washington, DC                                                                     77-79

9.     The Sound of Tenderness in a Hard Time
Diana Wylie, Boston University                                                                                  80-82

HOMAGES 

10.  Idir Beyond Kabylia
Joseph O. Krause, Emeritus, Oregon State University                                                83-85

11.  My journey with Idir’s Azwaw song
Yazid Djerbib, Independent Scholar                                                                             86-89

12.  Remembering Idir
Banning Eyre, African Music Producer                                                                              90-92

13.  Idir: The Warrior’s Rest
Achour Berkaine, Amazigh Activist                                                                                    93-94

14.  Idir, in the Midwest of the US
Alek Baylee Toumi, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point                                               95-98

TAMAZGHA GUEST

15.  Interview with Lounis Ait Menguellet                                                                         
Karim Ouaras & Nabil Boudraa                                                                                       99-105

16.  Tamazight is a Literary Language: Interview with Mohamed Nedali                      
Brahim El Guabli, Williams College                                                                               106-110

APPENDICES

17.  A Selection of Idir’s songs                                                                                       111-118

TRANSLATIONS 

18.  A City That Lost its Shadow
Khadija Ikan and Zahra Benlahoussine                                                                         119-125

19.  Three Poems
Jean Amrouche and Laura Sheahen                                                                             126-127

20.  Bilingual Poems
Hamid Ouyachi                                                                                                              128-132