Even the more isolated Asian musics have benefited from trade with other cultures.

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Over the centuries various forms of the xylophone spread throughout the African continent, revolutionizing most of the musics they touched.

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These musics were already floating through the world but it was in Panama where they could meet at this bridge between cultures.

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Jewish immigration brought together influences from Arab music, Jewish religious music, traditional Jewish folk melodies, and the musics of the Eastern European ghettos.

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Modernity has spurred or revitalized many of the so-called traditional musics.

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Some so-called folk musics are in fact quite recent products.

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African cities have blended differing tribal cultures and the technology of the electric guitar to produce some of the most vital world musics, as represented by Youssou N'Dour from Senegal or Salif Keita from Mali.

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