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Thread #92210   Message #1761438
Posted By: GUEST
16-Jun-06 - 11:06 AM
Thread Name: Review: World music - a white middle class fraud
Subject: RE: Review: World music - a white middle class fra
No, because I understand the word to mean something musically specific in Yiddish. To me, it simply means secular Jewish music that drew on earlier religious music traditions.

Rather like American gospel music morphing into a multiplicity of descendant secular music genres.