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Jeanne Jouin

جان جوان

Notable figure 1894–1986 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 458 · Second source: IdRef (Sudoc) authority record 170113108: Jouin, Jeanne (19..?-....)

From France; worked in Morocco

Field: Folk literature and dialects

Affiliation

Collector of women's songs of Rabat and Fez

Biography

A French ethnographer who worked in Morocco, collected the oral literature of its city women and photographed its life around 1930. She published the songs of the girls of Rabat (1942), maternal songs and games of Rabat (1950), swing songs of Fez and Rabat with their texts (1954), occasional and love poetry, new poems from Fez and Rabat-Salé (1958) and a poem by Sidi Qaddur al-ʿAlami (1959), most of them in Hespéris.