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You have until 3 p.m. EST this Monday, December 1st, to submit “your favorite ridiculous winespeak word or phrase” to Ed Levine’s delightful Serious Eats site. Five lucky submitters will be awarded a free copy of The Wine Snob’s Dictionary. For those who don’t win, hey, the book is still just thirteen bucks a copy–a recession-friendly stocking stuffer. November 29, 2008 More Wine Snobbery »
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Master Musicians of Jajouka, the. More respected than enjoyed Moroccan collective whose members play the ancient devotional music of the peoples of the Er Rif Mountains, near Tangier. Though their wailing horns and pipes and polyrhythmic drumming often make for mesmerizing listening, the Master Musicians, who were first given Western exposure by such druggie adventurers as William S. Burroughs and the Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones, are most readily revered by killjoy World Music Snobs (chief among them was the late New York Times critic Robert Palmer) who view their work as the musical equivalent of oat bran, to be dutifully taken in as nourishment rather than as a sensual experience. I can’t be bothered with rock music anymore; all I listen to is Miles Davis’s Nefertiti and the Master Musicians of Jajouka. Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » 
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