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<title>Music Industry Today: Africa Music News</title>
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<title>Minstrel shows, a jarring look back</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186965025</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 22:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to be black, Williams and Walker were African American. And, according to The Times, they  ...  followed was a mix of jokes, comic songs, pathetic ballads, dancing and sketches. In the  ...  one of the writers of the hit musical &quot;Shuffle Along,&quot; looked back at the days  ...
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<title>Sounds of Ramadan</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186959630</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 21:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  opening night of Nafahat Ramadania, a sacred music festival which translates into English as Blossoms  ...  solo as alongside his group, the Religious Singers Association of Damascus. Shakours performance was the  ...  the Ibn Arabi Religious Chanting Troupe from Morocco; Thursday will see a performance from the  ...
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<title>Beatles more than &apos;auditory cheesecake&apos;</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186942656</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 18:32 GMT</pubDate>
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... Beatles music more than &apos;auditory cheesecake&apos;, scientists find Listening  ...  cheesecake&apos;, scientists find Listening to a Beatles song was a literally unforgettable moment for millions  ...  11 years old. It was a typical African warm October night. The sounds came from  ...
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<title>The lineup coming to New Bedford this season promises to add to the Z&apos;s prestige and bolster its claim as a venue capable of competing with Boston or Providence.</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186942018</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 18:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by the 32 headliners scheduled to appear. Music of all kinds predominates, from Afro-Cuban to  ...  community will be the return of fado singer Mariza. &quot;Mariza is a mega-star internationally,&quot; Ms.  ...  further afield, a group of musicians from Africa, led by Bela Fleck, will be here  ...
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<title>Golly Z</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186941603</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 18:08 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by the 32 headliners scheduled to appear. Music of all kinds predominates, from Afro-Cuban to  ...  community will be the return of fado singer Mariza. &quot;Mariza is a mega-star internationally,&quot; Ms.  ...  further afield, a group of musicians from Africa, led by Bela Fleck, will be here  ...
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<title>Blondie&apos;s ambition? Fabulous Debbie Harry, 63, looks the spitting image of Madonna (who&apos;s only just turned 50)</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186938462</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 17:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  such a witty and wonderfully non pc musical Blondie&apos;s ambition? Fabulous Debbie Harry, 63, looks  ...  Rocks party in New York, the Blondie singer was the spitting image of Madonna -  ...  no longer have their sights set on Africa or India, and are instead considering adopting  ...
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<title>2008 Beantown Jazz Festival Line Up</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186932509</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 16:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  BeanTown Jazz Festival. 617-747-2261, John Coltrane Memorial Concert: This tribute boasts a superb ensemble of  ...  singer Bridgewater took the rediscovery of black music&apos;s African roots to a high level, bringing her  ...
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<title>&apos;Board overtaken by technology, time&apos;</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186930567</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 16:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  board does not have any access to musical products released in the country over the  ...  cannot exert its control over the numerous Nigerian movies that have flooded the country. &quot;Yes,  ...  We only hear about obscene or unsuitable songs making it on radio,&quot; he complains. But  ...
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<title>What&apos;s happening this weekend</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186929509</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 16:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  be contemporary songs and old-time hymns. The concert is free and open to the public.  ...  the fair will be Kellianna, internationally recognized musician and performer, Belly Dancing by Attar, the African stylings of the Marafanyi Drummers, and Aimee  ...
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<title>Battle victors head to recording studio</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186928856</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 16:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  prize was a recording session with well-known musician and producer Michael King who lives in  ...  by Air Teitel, which is about an African Queen that Teitel studied in school. &quot;We  ...  in school. &quot;We consider this our signature song and open every show with it,&quot; said  ...
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<title>Double shift</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186926752</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 15:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  having an affair with a married pop singer. Ritchie intends to show some of these  ...  there will surely be in High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Facing the prospect of  ...  the first movie, find themselves stuck in Africa in the second. Robert Downey Jr. plays  ...
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<title>Abroad: Watching Friends&apos; in Gaza: A Culture Clash</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186921051</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 14:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  extolling beckons from the cover of a CD. DVDs are also on offer, of not-yet-officially-released  ...  Gazans living under Hamas buy much Western music or many Western movies? Mr. Kihail looked  ...  hawk sex-instruction manuals alongside yellowing paperbacks from Egypt interpreting the Koran. Arabic translations of old  ...
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<title>Fall theater preview: The 20th century rocks</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186920517</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 14:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  2008 FALL PREVIEW | THEATER Great American songs of recent decades will be abundant in this season&apos;s musicals Take a panoramic look at any theater  ...  of global crosscurrents (British, Russian, Japanese and African) providing new perspectives. Here&apos;s a peek at  ...
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<title>Artist paints canvases, molds and shapes kids</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186920190</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 14:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  50 cents a card,&quot; said Stockard, whose music-themed work and other art will be showcased  ...  month she presented a painting to blues singer Stacy Mitchhart. Another one of her paintings  ...  friend who frequently goes on missions to Africa came back after one trip talking about  ...
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<title>Another Resounding Success for the THRASS Synthetic Phonics Programme</title>
<link>http://music.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186918143</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 14:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  success in thousands of schools across Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean and  ...  improved immensely.&quot; It is widely accepted that music, and in particular singing, can have a  ...  was evident from their faces at the concert that the school put on for children  ...
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