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100 Best Songs By Black Composers
WITHOUT them, there would be no Broadway, no Grammy, no jazz, no rock n' roll--no American music. The blues of America, the gospel of America, the jazz ......(Continue Reading) The ecstasy of God's dancers: now more than ever the world needs a gentle, tolerant version of Islam. Sufism is exactly that, but it faces growing hostility
Six years ago, in the autumn of 1998, I was sitting in a roadside tea shop surrounded by the desert landscape of Rajasthan, when I saw a succession of bicycle rickshaws appear over the horizon. The...(Continue Reading)Smokey Robinson's journey of faith: from fame to drugs to 'food for the spirit'
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Narada 80775 Kasse Mady Diabate is one of Mali's leading jeli singers, one of the hereditary group that keeps the histories and sings the songs ("jeli" ......(Continue Reading)
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