Can Blacks Play Klezmer?
Authenticity in American Ethnic Musical Expression
David Borgo
Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin vol. XXIV no.2
(Summer 1998)
Of the Armenian diaspora, Arto Tuncboyaciyan grew up outside Istanbul. His music celebrates Armenian sorrow + loneliness, also in African-American jazz and blues; it's melancholic, joyous, loving, consoling...