World Music
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| Originally published | May 30, 2002 |
| Authors | Philip Vilas Bohlman |
| Preceded by | The Russian Revolution |
| Followed by | Mathematics |
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| ID | 2050109 |
About World Music
'World music' emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures. This book draws readers into a remarkable range of these historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. . . .
Now That's What I Call Music turns 40: Forty facts about the compilation giant
... That includes 32 hits as a solo artist, six with Take That, and one each as a member of the charity projects Helping Haiti (Now 75), Justice Collective (Now 84), Artists for Grenfell (Now 97), and World Music project 1 Giant Leap (Now 52)...
Jon Batiste: Opening portals to new musical worlds
... Work on his new album, World Music Radio, began last August at Shangri-La, Rick Rubin s beachside recording studio in Malibu, California...
Angélique Kidjo says the Grammys 'need diversity'
... She signed to Island Records in 1991, and has since released 14 further albums, including Eve (2014), a tribute to African women largely sung in Beninese languages, which won the Grammy for best World Music album...
Black Coffee - the South African DJ who made history at the Grammys
... Most previous African Grammy winners have achieved their awards in the World Music category...
Alicia Keys, LL Cool J and the new wave of protest songs
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Michael Kiwanuka: 'I am not an imposter'
... It s that sort of ingrained, unconscious racism that he sings about on Hero: The people who told him to change his name were worried his records would be pigeon-holed as World Music , but they never considered they were asking him to erase his identity...
Woodstock still sounds golden 50 years on
... He had developed an interest in World Music and French New Wave cinema, and felt increasingly at odds with mainstream society...
Could music festivals be good for your health?
... We are at the Womad World Music festival, where performers such as Macy Gray, reggae star Ziggy Marley and Malian singer Salif Keita are performing over the four-day event to a total of 39,000 people...
