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Rudresh Mahanthappa |: South Asian Jazz |: NPR Music Radio Show - 0 views

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    Rudresh Mahanthappa: South Asian Jazz
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K'Naan | Hip Hop Folk Singer from Mogadishu, Somali - 0 views

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    When K'Naan Warsame was 11, he found what he thought was a rotten and strangely skewered potato. He pulled out the pin, threw the 'potato' and blew up half his school.
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Rebetiko - A Brief History - 0 views

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    From the 1950s in Smyrna and Istanbul and working class/poor Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki, to it's 1922 spread on the Greek mainland, to its height between WWI and WWII...
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An Adult Learns the Mandolin | Inspiring Stories | Reader's Digest - 0 views

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    The mandolin looks harmless enough. About the size of a tennis racket, it's easy to get a clear, golden sound just by brushing your pick across its four sets of double strings. That doesn't mean I didn't feel slightly panicky when my wife surprised me with one when I hit the big '4-0. "We support you, sweetie," Ruth said, speaking for the family. By day 7n, she and our 4-year-old would quietly slip into another room whenever I took a crack at "Turkey in the Straw."
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GNAWA Stories: Mystical Musician Healers from Morocco - 0 views

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    Multimedia web site dedicated to the Gnawa people, their music and culture...
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