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Re: Jewish music in the Diaspora and the dominant culture
- From: Pete Rushefsky <klezbanjo...>
- Subject: Re: Jewish music in the Diaspora and the dominant culture
- Date: Thu 31 Jan 2002 17.10 (GMT)
Jews dominated the Central Asian Music music scene as well-- specifically
Transoxania (Bukhara.Tashkent, etc.). Ted Levin's book One Hundred Thousand
Fools of Gold is an amazing ethnomusicologic account.
In the book, one Jewish performer explained to Levin that it must have been the
chicken soup.
Pete Rushefsky
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