Amrouche, Taos

LC control no.	n 89637076
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ3989.2.A5
Personal name heading	Amrouche, Taos *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Amarouche, Taos Amrouche, M. Taos (Marguerite Taos) Amrouche, Marguerite Taos Amrouche, Marie-Louise Taos Amrouche, Taos M. (Taos Marguerite) Amrouche, Taos Marguerite Taos Amrouche, M. (Marguerite) Taos Amrouche, Marguerite Taos, Marguerite Taos, Marie-Louise
Ending date	19760402
Associated country	Tunisia Algeria France Spain
Birth date	19130304
Place of birth	Tunis (Tunisia)
Field of activity	Songs, Kabyle Berbers
Affiliation	Ecole normale supérieure d'enseignement secondaire pour jeunes filles (Sèvres, France) Congrés de Chant de Fés
Profession or occupation	Singers Authors
Found in	Incantations, méditations, danses sacrés berbères [SR] p1974: label (Taos Amrouche, Berber folksinger; also appears as Amarouche) LC data base, 7/6/89 (hdg.: Amrouche, Marguerite Taos; usage: Taos Amrouche) LC manual cat. (hdg.: Amrouche, Marguerite Taos; usage: Taos Amrouche) Chants de l'Atlas [SR] 1975?: labels (M. Taos Amrouche) container (Marguerite Taos; Marguerite Taos Amrouche) Taos Amrouche, romancière, c1995: p. 167, etc. (b. Mar. 4, 1913; d. 1976; Marie-Louise Taos; author, singer) Taos Amrouche, 2013: t.p. verso (Marie-Louise Taos, parents Belkacem and Fadhma Amrouche, b. in Tunis Mar. 4, 1913; Amrouche family stayed sometimes in Kabylia; in Madrid 1940-1942, recipient of Casa Velasquez scholarship; settled in France 1945; did a weekly Kabyle-language broadcast 1957-1963; toured internationally 1964-1966 giving concerts of Berber songs; author of Jacinthe noire (1939), Grain magique (1966), L'amant imaginaire (1975); d. Apr. 2, 1976, buried in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire) p. 4 (Taos is a Kabyle given name meaning "peacock") p. 46 (Marguerite Taos) p. 118 (Taos Marguerite Amrouche) OCLC, Dec. 10, 2013 (hdgs.: Amrouche, Taos; Amrouche, M. Taos; Amrouche, Marguerite Taos; Amrouche, Marguerite Taos, 1913-1976; Amrouche, Taos M.; Amrouche, Taos, 1913-1976; usage: Marguerite Taos Amrouche; Marguerite Taos-Amrouche; Marie-Louise Amrouche; Marguerite Taos; Taos Amrouche) Wikipedia, Dec. 10, 2013 (Taos Amrouche; Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche; Algerian writer and singer, first Algerian woman to publish a novel; born to a family of Kabyle Roman Catholic converts, who moved to Tunisia to escape persecution; wrote in French, sang in Kabyle; took the nom de plume Marguerite-Taos [hyphenated usage not found in OCLC] in 1966, Marguerite being her mother's Christian name) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 7, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Amrouche, Marguerite Taos; Marie-Louise Amrouche; fiction writer, folk musician, singer; born 1913 in Tunisia; obtained her brevet supérieur in Tunis (1934) and joined the École Normale at Sévres; collected, transcribed, and interpreted Kabyle songs, in collaboration with her brother and her mother (1936); presented her repertoire in Paris and in Munich (1937-1938); received a scholarship to study at the Casa Velasquez, Spain while at the Congrés de Chant de Fés (1939); conducted a comparative study of Spanish and Berber folk songs and her first public appearance was at the First Congress of Moroccan Music (1939); her best-known work is Le Grain magique (The Magic Grain), published (1966); recorded six phonograph albums of her mother's songs; registered them in her name at the French copyright agency Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs, et Editeurs de Musique (Society of Authors, Composers, and Editors of Music, SACEM); performed at the First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966); was not allowed to represent Algeria at the Pan-African Cultural Conference (1969); performed at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and prestigious cathedrals across Europe; died 02 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France)
Associated language	kab fre
Invalid LCCN	no 98009580