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Profile: Arabesque music
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NPR Morning Edition
12-18-2002
Profile: Arabesque music
Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
ALEX CHADWICK, host:
"The Rough Guide" used to be just travel books about far away places where it was OK to live out of a backpack. Then a few years ago, they started publishing music CDs, also called "The Rough Guide," and also with the taste for the exotic. Among the latest, Arabesque, music that reinterprets traditional poignant Ara...
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