[Linganth] today on the blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today Alessandra Ciucci discusses her book, *The Voice of the Rural: Music,
Poetry, and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria *on the CaMP
anthropology blog.

https://campanthropology.org/

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: mbria is known to most Americans for its picturesque rolling
hills and medieval villages, but to the many migrant Moroccan men who
travel there, Umbria is better known for the tobacco fields, construction
sites, small industries, and the outdoor weekly markets where they work.
Marginalized and far from their homes, these men turn to Moroccan
traditions of music and poetry that evoke the countryside they have left—
*l-’arubiya*, or the rural. In this book, Alessandra Ciucci takes us inside
the lives of Moroccan workers, unpacking the way they share a particular
musical style of the rural to create a sense of home and belonging in a
foreign and inhospitable nation. Along the way, she uncovers how this
culture of belonging is not just the product of the struggles of migration,
but also tied to the reclamation of a noble and virtuous masculine identity
that is inaccessible to Moroccan migrants in Italy.

*The Voice of the Rural *allows us to understand the contemporary
experiences of migrant Moroccan men by examining their imagined
relationship to the rural through sound, shedding new light on the urgent
issues of migration and belonging.
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