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Can Blacks Play Klezmer? Authenticity in American Ethnic Musical Expression   David Borgo   Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin vol. XXIV no.2 (Summer 1998)

  1. Respect - Aretha Franklin   2. Louie Louie - Kingsmen   3. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye   4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones   5. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan   6. Hey Jude - Beatles   7. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys   8. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Righteous Brothers   9. My Girl - Temptations 10. Light My Fire - Doors 11. She Loves You - Beatles 12. You Really Got Me - Kinks 13. In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett 14. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream 15. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix 16. A Day In The Life - Beatles 17. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown 18. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin 19. My Generation - The Who 20. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix 21. Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds 22. Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival 23. Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding 24. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge 25. I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles 26. A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum 27. House Of The Rising Sun - Animals 28. Yesterday - Beatles 29. Be My Baby - Ronettes 30. Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes 31. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 32. I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles 33. Green Onions - Booker T. & the MGs 34. The Sounds Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel 35. I Want You Back - Jackson 5 36. Soul Man - Sam & Dave 37. I Get Around - Beach Boys 38. Reach Out, I'll Be There - Four Tops 39. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group 40. Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Temptations 41. All Day And All Of The Night - Kinks 42. Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells 43. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones 44. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf 45. Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison 46. White Room - Cream 47. Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones 48. Ticket To Ride - Beatles 49. The Tracks Of My Tears - Miracles 50. California Dreamin' - The Mamas & the Papas 51. Eight Miles High - Byrds 52. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield 53. Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles 54. Nights In White Satin - Mo

The term kemenche (Turkish: kemençe, Laz: Ç'ilili - ჭილილი, Persian: کمانچه, Greek: κεμεντζές) is used to describe two types of three-stringed bowed musical instruments: 1. a bottle-shaped lute closely related to the Persian Kamanche, found in the Black Sea region of Asia Minor, it is also known as the "kementche of Laz" or Pontic kemenche and 2. a pear-shaped lute closely related to the Byzantine lyra, found mainly in Instabul and the Eastern regions of Turkey, known as Classical kemenche.

"Taalib-Din Ziyad"

She's like a big, black, smiling sun; her voice seems polished by the sea, weathered by the wind, and is at once earthy and unearthly as she sings of the pain of love and the consolation of the divine.

I got the idea from John Santos first, to use chewing gum plus beeswax (again one of those recipes!). I had also learned that in India they mix the dough they use with FeO (black iron oxide) to give more gravity to the substance.

Center for Black Music Research Digest Spring 2000, 13 (1) Cuban Batá Drumming and Women Musicians: An Open Question by Elizabeth Sayre

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Aldo Romano on drums, Henri Texier on double bass, Geraldine Laurent on saxophone and Mauro Negri on clarinet.

Piercing the Veil.