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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)

Matt Barrett's introduction to Rembetika music, the Greek urban blues, songs of drug addiction, love, sorrow, exile, war and occupation ... was spent listening and learning from the music of the Beatles, the Kinks, the Move and Free, currently I listen predominantly to old Rembetika. ...

In these promotional notes (lengthy) for the German-Brazilian cross-pollinated musical collaboration "Pata Bahia," there's quite a bit of information (even between the lines) about the growth and worldwide dissemination of afrocentric musics rooted in Salvador, Bahia.

Project Spirit IsReal is about taking ancient Hebrew prayers and combining them with music & rhythms from all over the world: Indian Varanassi, Middle Eastern Sufis, trance traditions, chants from Brazil... Just a small portion of the musical influences in this project.

Loronix promotes forgotten (mostly Brazilian) music not commercially available.

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"Old Country" music; music with origins in the Ottoman Empire, once fabled as the borderlands of the East and the West. In a true collage of Carpathian, Jewish, Rumanian and Ottoman styles, typical suites contain dances from Moldavia and Bessarabia; Jewis

New record label founded by Jacob Edgar, an ethnomusicologist / music producer, head of research & development at Putumayo World Music. Charlotte, Vermont USA

Aish Talmud (California), Anthology of Jewish Music (Vancouver), Arutz Sheva (Israel), Israeli Music Online (New Jersey), Israel Radion International (non-Hebrew), Jewish Internet TV (North Carolina)...

Konnakol (also spelled konokol) (Tamil: கொன்னக்கோல்) is the Carnatic music - South Indian classical - performance art of vocal percussion. It is also a comprehensive language of rhythm which allows the composition, performance or communication of rhythms

Approximately 30 full tracks of Persian classical/Sufi music.

If you've ever considered launching a music startup yourself, or wondered why so many seem to falter, this video is really a must-watch.

Music from Other Minds is a program of new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers around the world. Produced for KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco by Other Minds and presented by

Music from "A World Out of Time," and "A World Out of Time, Vol 2," by Henry Kaiser and David Lindley, two musicians who have been part of the pioneering efforts to develop eclectic, multicultural music of many traditions.

'This exquisite recording finds one of the most gifted percussionists in Latin music today working in what is perhaps his true element - the Santeria liturgy. The spiritual power of this Afro-Caribbean religious ceremony, sung in Yoruba to the accompaniment of a three-man percussion bata is awesome, but it is the intense articulation of rhythm that makes this music so devastating, incredible.'-JD Considine,Musician Magazine'A wonderful album - absorbing, mesmerizing, beautiful and fun, graceful and sensual. It draws ou into a space and reality all its own, with a mood and flow quite distant from the everyday and yet hauntingly familiar. I found myself playing it over and over...' - City Paper (Washington DC)'Is a stone soul picnic, so party down. If you're going to buy one record this summer, here is one that, in the words of Hebrew National, answers to a higher authority.' - Glenn O'Brien, Interview Recorded in August 1985. Personnel: Milton Cardona (vocals, percussion); Steve Berrios, Hector Hernandez (bata); Jose Fernandez (percussion); Amma Dawn, Teresa Gomez, Sandra Wiles, Linda Evans (background vocals).

Dhrupad was structured originally around the poetic and melodic- rhythmic material from the tradition of devotional music practiced in the Vaishnava temples. Its entry into a secular environment paved the way for the acceptance of appropriate changes in poetic content, and mode of presentation.

Music of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée-, Mali, Senegal, Congo, etc.

Habib Koité & Bamada Habib comes from a noble line of Khassonké griots, traditional troubadors who provide wit, wisdom and musical entertainment at social gatherings and special events. Habib grew up surrounded by seventeen brothers and sisters, and developed his unique guitar style accompanying his griot mother. He inherited his passion for music from his paternal grandfather who played the kamele n'goni, a traditional four-stringed instrument associated with hunters from the Wassolou region of Mali. "Nobody really taught me to sing or to play the guitar," explains Habib, "I watched my parents, and it washed off on me."