By Chris Silver, Ph.D. Zohra El Fassia (1905-1994) was among the most important Moroccan vocalists of the 1950s. Like so […]
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Read Moreby Mohsen Mohammadi, Ph.D. On Monday, September 17, 1984, Iranians from across Los Angeles gathered at the historic Wilshire […]
Read MoreBy Simone Salmon Between the 1940s and 1970s, Sephardic Jews would gather to play and hear Ladino tunes played live by […]
Read Moreby Rina Benmayor, Ph.D. In the late 1950s, two young Spanish professors at UCLA, Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. […]
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