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- ↑ "Author: Ralph P. Locke" . Retrieved 2020-12-13.
- ↑ Mabilat, Claire, 1980- (2008). Orientalism and representations of music in the nineteenth-century British popular arts. Ashgate. p. 12. OCLC 166290630 . Retrieved 2020-12-13.
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