The experience of Nass El-Ghiwane constitutes a contrapuntal moment in the history of music production and reception in post-independence Morocco. Upon its constitution in 1970, Nass El-Ghiwane was immediately hailed as a voice of dissent and resistance. In a social, cultural, and political context characterized by organic crises, Nass El-Ghiwane became the “epistemic heroes” (Medina 2012) of the “years of lead.” Their music, which documents the emergence of a decolonial moment, was the voice of the disenfranchised and excluded. By “delinking” (Mignolo 2007) from the dominant Western and Oriental rhythms and tempos, they re-linked the people with their cultural heritage, reinstated epistemic justice to Morocco’s music production, and translated the abstract notion of resistance consciousness into rhythmic and bodily reality. Over decades, the coercive and hegemonic systems of the state but also other dominant interest groups including the conservative music establishment have sought to contain the influence of Nass El-Ghiwane through co-optation of its band members and ‘folklorization’ of the movement. Using Medina’s notion of “resistant imagination,” (Medina 2012) this paper argues that the Ghiwane movement is a regenerative force and resource capable of inspiring new epistemologies of resistance. The paper also makes the point that not all forms of “folklorization” are necessarily dissociative and alienating and that in this case, “the folklorization” of the Ghiwane movement has contributed to its perenniality and transnalization. The paper engages with the song “مهمومة” [Mahmouma] [Worried] as a manifestation of resistant imagination and analyzes Moroccan French artist Fouad Boussouf’s border text “Näss,” (2018) a choreographic representation inspired by the music of Nass El-Ghiwane, as an embodiment of transnational resistant imagination. References Medina, José. (2012). The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Mignolo, Walter D.. (2007). Delinking. Cultural Studies, 21 :2, 449-514.