MUSCAT, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The coastal Arab nation of Oman is the unlikely centre of a thriving African music scene with roots stretching back centuries and across the seas to Zanzibar. The Omani ...

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African Music is an annual, peer reviewed, accredited, academic journal established in 1954 by Hugh Tracey, founder of the International Library of African Music. The journal publishes original ...

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MUSCAT (Reuters) - The coastal Arab nation of Oman is the unlikely center of a thriving African music scene with roots stretching back centuries and across the seas to Zanzibar. The Omani empire in ...

MUSCAT: Oman seems the unlikely center for a thriving African music scene with roots stretching back centuries and across the seas to Zanzibar. The Omani empire in the 18th- and 19th-century ruled ...