The researcher seeking information on the musics of Morocco would be disappointed at finding only one article--'Tuareg Music'--in the landmark Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 1: Africa (1997). Referencing Volume 6: The Middle East (2001), however, results in 11 articles under the subheading 'North Africa: The Maghrib'. The apparent dissociation of Morocco (and the Maghreb) from Africa invites an inquiry into perceptions of the region's enduring affinity with the Arab World despite its location in the northwestern portion of Africa. Yet geography cannot be the sole determinant of cultural kinship, as indicated in the objection of Wole Soyinka (1985) to the presumption that "all that is bound by salt water on the African continent is necessarily African." This paper takes an Ethnomusicological standpoint in interrogating the quandary of Morocco's perceived affiliation with the Arab World in light of its geographical presence in Africa. How do factors of language, aesthetics, religion, political structures, historical antecedents, and migration patterns contribute to conceptualizing Morocco's cultural identity? Does "Maghrebi separateness and distinctiveness" remain a useful "unit of analysis" or merely hearken to the divisive "French colonial tactic" of keeping the Maghreb "sealed off from the Mashriqi [Eastern Arab] influences" (Brown 1997)? What are the ramifications of viewing the Maghreb as an isolated enclave within the continent of Africa? Must 'Africa' and the 'Arab World' remain "mutually exclusive labels" (Bentahar 2011), or are these geo-cultural boundaries permeable in combining Moroccan and African cultural elements, as demonstrated by the gn?wa genre? The problematics presented by the "division separating the Maghreb from sub-Saharan Africa" are re-examined vis-à-vis "the many forms of intertwining influence that exist" (Tissières and de Jager 2002). This inquiry into Morocco's cultural identification with the Arab World and Africa concludes with an assessment of its impact on the continuity of traditional music genres, instrumentation, and performance practices comprising Moroccan musical life and its effect on the continued privileging of Andalusian music within the Moroccan soundscape.