Music and Reading Links
Favorite sources for Middle Eastern Music . These links will let you listen to clips of music before you buy.

Maqam Music	Excellent source for music,dvds,instruments etc.
Hollywood Music Centre	Middle Eastern Music Specialists Excellent Customer Service You can listen to sample tracks
Putumayo Music World	Putumayo World Music was established in 1993 to introduce people to the music of the world's cultures. Some awesome product! You can listen to sample tracks
Tina Enheduanna	Tina has a new CD & DVD series out. Her practise CD is a work of art. The music is perfect for class drilling and technique refinement. Highly recommended.
Snake Hips	Anne Thomas Soffee Snake Hips and How I found true love belly dancing. Excellent book. Humorous. Can be appreciated by anyone who has been belly dancing for a while.
Radio Bastet	Podcasts of Belly Dance Vinyl Records 1950's-1980's by Marrisa. Awesome classic music resource. I collect vintage vinyl belly dance albums too!!

Recommended Reading
These are materials covering the subject. Everything from historical and the light hearted to more academic sources on the subject.

Snake Hips:Belly Dancing and how I found true love	Anne Thomas Soffee Snake Hips and How I found true love belly dancing. Excellent book. Humorous. Can be appreciated by anyone who has been belly dancing for a while.
Grandmothers Secrets	Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing . Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia B. One of my favorite belly dance references.A must have.
Serpent of the Nile	Woman and Dance in the Arab World by Wendy Buonaventura Excellent resource material
Orientalism Transnationalism & Harem Fantasy	This book provides a much needed critical perspective on the nature of belly dance while celebrating its power and beauty.
Looking for Little Egypt	Little Egypt was a pre-Hollywood sex symbol. She was created by and personified the Western obsession for the exotic. She was bon in an age when showmen, in deliberate Barnum-esque fashion, outdid each other to manipulate the press and mislead the public by fabricating larger-than-life personality. In this case, the Little Egypt legend has fooled many people for almost a century.
Bellydance	Bellydance: A guide to Middle Eastern Dance, Its Music Its Culture and Costume. This is an excellent read. I have studied Keti's dance format and love it. Highly recommended.
A Woman's Book of Power"	From the author of "A Woman's Book of Strength" comes a simple approach to a simple idea--using dance and movement to feed the soul and keep you lean and fit. "Karen Andes . . . addresses different aspects of our beings with her unique combination of the physical and spiritual