Los Zafiros: Bossa Cubana (Elektra 79572) When World Circuit released The Buena Vista Social Club, they turned the world on to a group of Cuban musicians that had been languishing...
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Read MoreMen And Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Raï. By Marc Schade-Poulsen. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. ISBN 0-292-77739-6 (cloth); ISBN 0-292-77740-X (pbk.). Pp....
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Read MoreAlan Lomax: Selected Writings 1934-1997, edited by Ronald D. Cohen. New York: Routledge, 2005. [384 p. ISBN 415938546 $28.50 (hardcover)]
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