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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Life of the Party

January 26, 2020 Caroline Luce

by Regine Basha Featuring video clips and still images from Los Angeles-based home movies excerpted from “Tuning Baghdad,” a narrative […]

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  by Mohsen Mohammadi, Ph.D. On Monday, September 17, 1984, Iranians from across Los Angeles gathered at the historic Wilshire […]

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Emily Sene’s Sephardic Mixtape

January 7, 2020 Caroline Luce

By Simone Salmon Between the 1940s and 1970s, Sephardic Jews would gather to play and hear Ladino tunes played live by […]

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Judeo-Spanish Romansos in Los Angeles

January 1, 2020 Caroline Luce

by Rina Benmayor, Ph.D. In the late 1950s, two young Spanish professors at UCLA, Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. […]

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