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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Nov 2017

    This morning’s odd question is why did Boney M make a song about Rasputin, and how did they end up sampling from a Turkish folk song as melody?

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Nov 2017

        This morning's musical rabbit hole ended with me learning that the amazing Anouar Brahem dedicated his 2014 album, Souvenance, to the Arab Spring. (Grateful to the recommender!). "Deliverance":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkGM0BR9KYI …

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Nov 2017

        So TIL that Farian did the intro percussive riff to Daddy Cool by tapping on his teeth with a pencil. https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Daddy%20Cool%20(single)&item_type=topic … (My fave of this genre remains Buckingham credit for playing a "Kleenex box" in Tusk.)

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Dec 2017

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        Aaawesome thread! Has everything from politics of diffusion of music from Germany to Balkans and more, to how Cold War plays into this, to links to bunch a songs including a Finnish metal version of a Turkish folk song. https://twitter.com/richmondbridge/status/936578555051376641 …

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      2. OLD IVORY‏ @oldivory 30 Nov 2017
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        The Greensleeves tune is used in Christian churches. It was an old British song about prostitutes. Prostitutes wore green sleeves.

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      3. Mary Branscombe‏ @marypcbuk 30 Nov 2017
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        Um, Greensleeves was written by Henry VIII about a girl he had plans for.

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      1. Paul Guinnessy‏ @PaulGuinnessy 30 Nov 2017
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        Personally I like Nightflight to Venus more :)

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      2. Mena Burke‏ @MenaBurke 30 Nov 2017
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        Farian, the songwriter & man who put together the group, was West German. Lots of émigrés Russian/Turkish influences in the ‘70s.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Nov 2017
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        That helps explain why they drop German words here and there!

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      1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Nov 2017

        heh

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      1. Drago Indjic/Инђић‏ @dindjic 30 Nov 2017
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        very Goran Bregovic cross-fertilisation

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