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Article: Gypsy music: It's not just for brunch anymore.(Scene)
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- The Boston Herald
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- October 12, 2001
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Gypsies used to know their place in pop.
"I went to see the gypsy to have my fortune read," Mick Jagger sang in the Rolling Stones version of the New Orleans favorite "Fortune Teller." And Cher wailed about "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves."
Now we live in more sensitive times. We reject the stereotype of Gypsies as shifty characters. We appreciate their musical artistry - or at least the artistry of the enormously popular Gipsy Kings, whose exuberant, flamenco-based guitar music became as necessary as tablecloths in the '90s in every restaurant with a brunch menu. Maybe we even have heard that Gypsies prefer to be called Roma.
But rather than ...