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Friday, January 22, 2010
EVIE LADIN- BREAKING BARRIERS WITH THE BANJO ON ‘FLOAT DOWNSTREAM’
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So, since when did banjo music become world music- no foreign languages, no Africans, no salseros, nada ? I don’t know. What year did ...
Monday, January 04, 2010
BIGBANG- Last Call for ‘Edendale’
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For a foreign band to ‘make it’ in the US , or even the UK , is a tough proposition. It it doesn’t matter whether they’re singing in the...
Monday, December 14, 2009
CEDRIC WATSON AND BIJOU CREOLE- ‘L’esprit Creole’: Zydeco’s Next Wave?
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Though zydeco was one of the first ‘world music’ sub-genres out of the gates, its history has been a bit uneven. On the one hand it has ...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA- ‘I Speak Fula’: Is it African Bluegrass or Blues… or Jazz?
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World music can be like a genome project sometimes, except here the DNA involved is an aspect of culture, not biology, and in this case mu...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
‘JOYFUL NOISE’- VIRGIN ISLANDS’ REGGAE
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No one has ever accused me of being reggae’s greatest fan, though I’ve always liked it. It’s just that after its early good-time urban Cari...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
WHO NEEDS HOLLYWOOD? NOT CAIRO FILM FESTIVAL INSH’ALLAH
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Cairo International Film Festival is the kind of film festival that I like, the kind where you can watch a lot of cut...
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