Desert blues
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Tishoumaren or assouf, internationally known as desert blues, is a style of music from the Sahara region of northern and west Africa. Critics describe the music as a fusion of blues and rock music fro
Tuareg desert rock band Tinariwen performing in Nuremberg in 2010
Tuareg people
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The Tuareg people or the Tuaregs are an Amazigh ethnic group. They are traditionally nomadic pastoralists who principally inhabit the Sahara in an area stretching from southwestern Libya to southern A
Desert blues
…are used to describe it including desert rock, Saharan rock, Takamba, Mali blues, Tuareg rock or simply "guitar music". The style has been pioneered by Tuareg musicians in the Sahara region, particularly in Mali, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Burkina Faso and others; with it also being developed by Sahrawi artists…
A Tuareg in Algiers, Algeria, 2015
An artist's representation of Tin Hinan, an ancient queen of the Hoggar
Tuareg chief Moussa Ag Amastan arriving in Paris, 1910
A Tuareg man in Mali with his slave, 1974