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The Mediterranean Soundscape: Six Instruments That Tell the Story
Every sea has a sound. The Atlantic roars. The Pacific hums. The Mediterranean murmurs — in Arabic, Greek, Spanish, Turkish,…
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Sounds of the Mediterranean — from traditional folk to contemporary fusion and everything in between.
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Fado Beyond Lisbon: Tracing Portugal’s Melancholy Song
Fado means fate. The word itself — from the Latin fatum — carries the weight of inevitability that defines the…
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Gnawa Nights: The Sacred Music of Essaouira
The sound begins after midnight. A single guembri — the three-stringed bass lute that is one of the instruments defining…
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Rebetiko Revival: How Athens Rediscovered Its Underground Sound
Walk through the Psyrri neighborhood of Athens on any given Thursday night and you will hear it: the sharp twang…
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Camarón Revisited: Kefta Brother’s Flamenco Tribute
Camarón de la Isla died in 1992 at the age of forty-one, and flamenco has spent the decades since trying…
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Yasmine Hamdan: Soapkills and the Beirut Underground
Before Jim Jarmusch cast her in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), before her solo albums drew critical acclaim from New…