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Turkish Gypsies

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Driven from their home in Afghanistan in the Middle Ages, the gypsies who eventually settled in Turkey provided dances and improvisations for the pashas, and music for the popular shadow theatre. The Erkbse brothers in the town of Boursa carry on this virtuosic tradition. Records (R)

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