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Susan Slyomovics. The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Modern Philology 120. ix + 298 pp., photographs, musical transcriptions, textual transliterations and translations, illustrations, genealogies, table, appendices, bibliography, index. $41.00. Paper.

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Susan Slyomovics. The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Modern Philology 120. ix + 298 pp., photographs, musical transcriptions, textual transliterations and translations, illustrations, genealogies, table, appendices, bibliography, index. $41.00. Paper.

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Philip V. Bohlman
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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 22 , 1990 , pp. 155 - 156
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Copyright © 1990 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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