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Algazi, Léon, 1958, Chants séphardis, London: World Sephardi Federation.

American Jewish Year Book, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America, Published 1938.

Aki Yerushalayim, discography, 1987.

Armistead, Samuel G., 1978. Romancero judeo-español en el Archivo Menéndez Pidal, Madrid: Seminario Menéndez Pidal.

Attias, Moshe, 1972. Cancionero sefardí. Jerusalem: Centro de Estudios sobre el Judaísmo de Salónica.

Bagby, Benjamin, 2008. "What is the Sound of Medieval Song", Early Music America, Summer, 2008, p. 48.

Barr, Steven C. Almost Complete 78 RPM Record Dating Guide II.

Benmayor, Rina, 1978. Oral Narrative and the Comparative Method: The Judeo-Spanish Ballad Chapbooks of Yacob Abraham Yoná, Romance Philology, Vol. XXXI, No. 3.

Boehm, Yohanan, 1971, "Music", Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Macmillan, 1971) 12:555.  

Bunis, David M., 1981. Sephardic Studies, Sephardic Studies: A Research Bibliography Incorporating Judezmo Language, Literature and Folklore, and Historical Background, Garland Pub.

Cohen, Judith R., 1993. Sonography of Judeo-Spanish Song (Cassettes, LP's, CD's, Video, Film). Jewish Folk and Ethnology Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1993, pp. 49-55.

_____, 1995. "Just Harmonizing it in their own way": Change and reaction in Judeo-Spanish Song, Revista de Musicología, 1613.

_____, 1998. "Sephardic Music: the Romance and Romanticization of Medieval Spain", Rough Guide to World Music, 2nd ed., ed. S. Broughton. London: 1998.

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Gronow, Pekka, 1981. The record industry comes to the orient, Ethnomusicology, Vol. XXV, No. 2.

Havassy, Rivka, The Ladino Song in the 20th Century: A Study of the Collections of Emily Sene and Bouena Sarfatty-Garfinkle. Ph.D. dissertation, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 2007.

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_____,  2002. Smyrne: E Mousike Zoe 1900-1922. Ta Mousika Katastemata, oi Echografeseis Diskon (Smyrna: Musical Life 1900-1922. Music Establishments and Recordings) Epimeleia Nikou Dionysopoulou. Music Corner and Tinella, Athens. 

Katz, Israel J., A Judeo-Spanish Romancero, Ethnomusicology 12, no. 1, 1968, pp. 72-85.

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Maillart, D., Concert juif, à Tlemcen, Dessin de D. Maillart, d’après des photographies de M. Pedra (Jewish concert in Tlemcen – design by D. Maillart based on photographs of M. Pedra. Engraver: Henri Théophile Hildibrand.) From: Le Tour du Monde, Nouveau journal des voyages publie sous la direction de M. Edouard Charton et illustre par nos plus celebres artistes. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1875.

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_____, 1977, Musical change and commercial recording in Egypt, 1904-1932, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1977, pp. 97-98.

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_____, 1995. Cancionero sefardí by Alberto Hemsi, edited with an introduction by Edwin Seroussi. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

_____, 1990. Growth of the Judeo Spanish folksong repertoire. In Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies.

_____. 1993. New Directions in the Music of the Sephardic Jews, Modern Jews and their Musical Agendas (Studies in Contemporary Jewry 9) ed. Ezra Mendelsohn. New York, Oxford, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, Institute of Contemporary Jewry.

_____, 1995. Reconstructing Sephardi Music, World of Music, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1.

_____, 2008. CD booklet to An Early Twentieth-Century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historic Recordings of Haim Effendi of Turkey.

_____, 2009. "From Spain to the Eastern Mediterranean and Back: A Song as Metaphor of Modern Sephardic Culture", Garment and Core: Jews and their Musical Experiences, ed. Eitan Avitsur, Marina Ritzarev and Edwin Seroussi. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press 2012, pp. 41-82.

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Web

Duygulu, Melih and Cemal Ünlü, Turkey’s Musical Life During The Past Century: History, Genres, Voice Recordings, Sectoral Structure,  http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/article.php?id=13&lang2=en

Cohen, Joel, posting as Trobador Feb 17, 1995, 7:39 pm, to the rec.music.early group.

Englund, Björn, 2003. Dating German Homocord records. Formerly available at  http://www.slba.se/03mediearkivet/documents/dating_german_homocord.pdf

Gogalija, Resad, 1997. http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/028/500tha.html

Holst-Warhaft, Gail, 2000. Amanes: The Legacy of the Oriental Mother, in Music & Anthropology, No. 5 http://www.umbc.edu/MA/index/number5/holst/holst_2.htm

_____, 2003. Once Upon a Time in Smyrna (Book review of Kalyviotis, 2002, above.) http://www.greekworks.com/content/index.php/weblog/extended/once_upon_a_time_in_smyrna/

Vernon, Paul. Cairo Practice, http://bolingo.org/audio/texts/fr141cairo.html

_____, Empire State, http://www.bolingo.org/audio/texts/fr167empire.html

http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pro/messages/133.html  (Electro-Vox Studio closing)

http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/artist/content.artist/rita_abatzi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Eskenazi

http://www.klezmershack.com/archives/001586.html (Maftirim recording)

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