It's rock 'n' roll masquerading as world music, and world music isn't actually a thing; apart from being the title of their debut album.
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Written by Brian Barrentine, the creator of Funikijam World Music, an organization presenting world-music classes and programs for children, "Shenanigans" offers Irish songs and stories for theatergoers 10 and younger.
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Soja: Live In Virginia — Soja Best World Music Album
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World music was meant to make the consumer experience easier.
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His work is a Starbucks World Music CD put to canvas.
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RANDOLPH Festival of Storytelling and World Music, featuring Tim Van Egmond.
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If I want to explore I'll go into my world music.
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But Australia, at the WOMADelaide 2015 world music festival, was great.
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Very serious guy continues to play world music on his flute.
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There have been World Music Day celebrations from Pittsburgh to Hyderabad.
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" In the United States, Mr. Neiburger of the World Music Institute said, Indian classical music tends not to have "the broad appeal that some other world music genres might have, such as Brazilian music, fado and flamenco.
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Yet with quadruple the length, world, music, content, detail, graphical fidelity, etc.
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In these unfussy world music sounds she heard something far more abundant.
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N.Y.U. leaned toward New Age and world music — Brian Eno; sitars; didgeridoos.
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And it's not like the term "world music" is any good, I mused.
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Lopez also posed on the red carpet at the 2010 World Music Awards.
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And then of course, there's always the nebulous Best World Music Album category.
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World Music Day is an annual celebration that takes place on the summer solstice.
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There are boxes of big band recordings, world music and jazz and original soundtracks.
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Outside of France, it's commonly known as World Music Day or Make Music Day.
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There's that 'thing' in the world—music has it, every kind of art has it.
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Is there anywhere in the world music hasn't taken you that you wish it would?
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Her debut production will have a world-music flavor and be filled with African influences.
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This world music, dance and art festival focuses largely on genres not native to Australia.
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They plan to release an album called Tribes, which encompasses their pop, world music sound.
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Ms. Arocena appears at Pioneer Works in a concert presented with the World Music Institute.pioneerworks.
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His Afrobeats is world music with an African aesthetic of smooth omnivorousness and calm mastery.
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The toy had five musical genres: pop, rock, funk and jazz, classical and world music.
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Not one of the best "world music" albums, whatever that means, but one the best albums.
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The World Music Institute is curated by Par Neiburger, in his third year with the organization.
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Their album "Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration" won in the Best World Music Album category.
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Set in a rainforest in Malaysian Borneo, the three-day event is a celebration of world music.
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So far, only a few of the spots in the World Music Fan tomb have been claimed.
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It is worth noting that in the real world, music is essentially infinitely more important than home control.
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The world music boom of the 1990s was galvanised by a bestselling Cuban album, "Buena Vista Social Club".
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I went because I love "world music," whatever the hell that is, and I had a free flight.
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Although Burna Boy's "African Giant" is nominated for best world music album, he's not staying in any niche.
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In June, 1987, four men met at the Empress of Russia, a pub in London, and reinvented world music.
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Through the years, Globalfest has demolished the stereotype of world music performers as naifs playing the only music they know.
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The songs that comprise the mix include old songs, new songs, world music... just a wide array of lifetime grooves.
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Some Sami singers—like Mari Boine, considered Norway's leading world music artist—combined joik with other popular genres and styles.
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A MINUS The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters (World Music Network) Take the notes' terminological drift as a sign.
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The World Music Institute will honor David Bowie, John Coltrane and Steve Reich in its coming season starting in September.
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The tomb's facade is simple: off-white stone with World Music Fans inscribed upon it in a romantic, black script.
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And then I sort of discovered world music, and, you know, fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.
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I enrolled in graduate school and got a job at a small world music label in a rural Vermont town.
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It is Flamenco Festival New York 2800, not the World Music Institute's Flamenco Festival, and it begins on Wednesday, not Thursday.
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It is Flamenco Festival New York 2016, not the World Music Institute's Flamenco Festival, and it begins on Wednesday, not Thursday.
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Traveling opens our minds and souls to a whole new world (cue A Whole New World music from Aladdin and montage).
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World Music Institute presents the sixth season of this Indian classical dance festival, which focuses, in part, on the Mohiniyattam form.
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Critic's Notebook Roots were tangled, elastic and portable at this year's Globalfest, the annual showcase for world music that started in 2003.
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Just when you think we're living in a bit of a divided world, music is bringing us together, no matter the language!
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"World music is a term to identify the musical expressions from artists around the globe by the music industry," he told me.
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The World Music Institute will bring acclaimed musicians from across the globe to New York for more than 113 performances next season.
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Another series is called "Les Concerts Sauvages" (wild concerts), with soloists from the orchestra joined by jazz, folk and world music artists.
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The Grammy-nominated artist toured with Paul Simon and was a major player on the jazz and world music scene for decades.
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This was the kind of group that world-music fans have always been thrilled to discover: vital, accomplished, local, unplugged, deeply rooted.
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Students generally begin between the ages of 8 to 10, with exposure to ear training, singing, theory and classical, jazz and world music.
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Syrian music, even at its best, was never one of the pre-eminent genres during the "world music" CD boom of the 1990s.
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The update adds new skins to the game, as well as a Super Mario-themed world, music and new items to build with.
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In the 1990s, partly thanks to its expansion to post-communist countries but also as Europop faded from fashion, Eurovision embraced world music.
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I asked him about the current state of World Music, and how he sees its current place among the (dubiously dubbed) Western genres.
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In more recent years, Mr. Wu has traded in his rocker uniform for the less raucous, though no less energetic, world music circuit.
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The weirder shit she saves for other monikers, like Angelwings Marmalade, under which she just released the head-spinning new tape World Music.
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Performing around the city and across Canada, ILAM began earning recognition and awards, including CBC Radio Canada's World Music Revelation for 2016 -2017.
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The vaulted ceiling above the World Music Fan tomb is now colored with decorative inlays in muted tones of blue, red and ocher.
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All around the world, music is getting people through the coronavirus — like those flash mobs and performances from windows in Italy, for example.
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It drew inspiration not only from jazz and blues but also from world music, ritual and folklore, all keen interests of Mr. Jarman's.
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One shouldn't blame the music for its marketing, and actually, one convenient thing about the "world music" tag is that it's just a tag.
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Papa Wemba, 66, was considered a Congolese icon and world music star after merging his Central African heritage with Western pop, rock and rap.
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The Dutch journalist, Bastiaan Springer put forth the perhaps facile but still sweetly compelling solution of calling everything world music on his radio show.
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If you think about it, I call it World Music because over here in Africa we have people that do hip-hop as well.
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A spellbinding concert presented in February at the 92nd Street Y by the World Music Institute illuminated the Carnatic genre at its most sublime.
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A The Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues (World Music Network) Beats me why nobody's done this before, but it's great top to bottom.
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The whole thing is set to a soundtrack of world music, its mysterious source revealed to the viewer only after leaving the coloring room.
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Alongside a full program celebrating world music, the festival is presenting more than 100 projects, including performance art, installation and videos across 14 acres.
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Presented by the World Music Institute at Symphony Space, the two-day (and too-short) event illuminates some of Indian dance's many complex lineages.
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His third album, The Brasil Session, ensures his unique voice holds a place among local and international MCs within hip hop and world music spheres.
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A MINUS Joi Sound System: Joi Sound System (RealWorld) It does tend schlocky, like so much of what Peter Gabriel's world music label puts out.
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And what does any of this matter when thousands upon millions in the places that that put the "world" in "world music" have been displaced?
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HUNTINGTON "World Music and Dance Festival," dance performance featuring teaching artists and students of Huntington Ballet Academy, Suzuki Music School and Long Island Ballet Theater.
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I think just my name alone positions me in a place in some people's minds that I make world music or some shit like that.
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Before she was co-ruling empires in the TV world music industry, this schoolgirl was posing for cute yearbook pics and cheesing for the camera.
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"SFX was built in the EDM bubble, when it looked like EDM was going to rule the world," music industry analyst Mark Mulligan told THUMP.
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Rather than stick to one genre, Glasto's always been known for branching out, with everything from jazz and world music to electronic music and obviously rock.
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There was a demand for new music and albums—increasingly met by bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin—and "World" music, such as reggae.
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Most of her works, set to eclectic selections of classical and world music, folk songs, popular ballads and dance music, essentially offer a series of vignettes.
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A special thanks to Peter Gabriel's Real World Records for allowing us to play a special live track by world music legend Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
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Its New York City debut was a pure joy at Globalfest, the annual world-music showcase that brought a dozen groups to Webster Hall on Sunday.
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In July the director of Womad, a world music festival, said three acts were unable to perform at the British event because they did not obtain visas.
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Looking to further explore jazz and world music after years of touring, Vega launched another venture, Elements of Life, in which he performs with a live band.
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Started by Brahim out of a frustration with the absence of locally-controlled markets for world music, it's by all accounts the only conference of its sort.
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"MOTS: Persona" would have made sense for album of the year, best pop vocal album — or even best world music album if the voters were really unsure.
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Angelwings Marmalade: World Music As Fire-Toolz, the Chicago musician Angel Marcloid makes mutant electronic music informed by a long history in noise scenes and extremely online.
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In 1988, an article in Newsweek described world music as an unlikely fad, a harbinger of where pop was going, now that rock was, as one d.j.
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Together, they offer rock and pop with world-music influences — the target ages are 4 though 8 — and lots of opportunities for young listeners to be involved.
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Organized by the guitarist Joel Harrison, the annual Alternative Guitar Summit gathers some of the most talented six-string improvisers in jazz, post-rock and world music.
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Though the parties often spotlight Iranian musicians like the Farsi funk group Mitra Sumara, they also feature a wide array of world music, electronic music and noise art.
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Combining shamrocks, superheroes, spying and a smidgen of feminism — March is Women's History Month — this production from Funikijam World Music features the company's first female lead, Ashton Parrack.
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Between Mr. Browne's millions of albums sold and Son de la Frontera's critical bona fides — the group won the BBC World Music Award — it should be a vivacious evening.
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Sure, the event—which just wrapped its sixth year, on February 303-28—features hundreds of musical acts playing everything from world music to dubstep, spread across multiple stages.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the album also boasts shades of Guy's debut solo record, 2015's Courting the Squall, which itself took cues from world music, jazz, and 60s psych rock.
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"The label grew out of the blog's attempt to show what African music really sounds like in various regions, not a packaged world music version of it," Shimkovitz explains.
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The phrases "global pop" and "world music" have been used in the music industry for decades now as catch-alls to describe music that sounds foreign to American ears.
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Where some world music bands seek exotic hybrids but end up settling for the lowest common denominator, Ibibio Sound Machine is a global coalition that builds a true synergy.
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I spoke to the guys at Mr Bongo, a Brighton based purveyor of world music of every stripe, about why it is that Brazillian disco sells for so much money.
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Christopher Francis "Frank" Ocean and Aubrey Drake Graham, please do us a solid and cover "Float On" for the good of Canada, the world, music, and the element of water.
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It was only a 15-minute drive to the venue, and we spent it listening to 88.3 FM WBGO, Newark, New Jersey's haven for excellent jazz, soul, and world music.
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The day will also include face painting and the auditory equivalent of all this visual whimsy: two performances of world music by the clarinetist Oran Etkin and his Timbalooloo band.
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He is touring with 16 backup musicians, mingling the six-member chamber music ensemble yMusic with the rest of his own slowly gathered rock-pop-folk-jazz-world-music band.
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Can looked back to psychedelia and forward to punk primitivism and the steadiness of dance music; it also picked up elements of world music while maintaining a certain Germanic rigor.
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Strangely, perhaps, given that we are talking about twentieth-century popular music, it was often Islamic song traditions that acted as the conveyor for these deep strains in world music.
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Syrian singer Omar Souleyman, who performed at the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, may now be prevented from singing at Brooklyn's World Music Institute in May 2017.
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"This is all around the world," he sang—a tidy conclusion for a world-music landmark, except that the singer sounded a lot less jubilant than the musicians alongside him.
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Now, the resultant album, "I Have No Everything Here," has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best World Music Album" category, a first for a record out of Malawi.
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But while the school is new, his program, Timbalooloo, is not: Mr. Etkin founded it in 2005 to teach jazz and world music to young children as a conversation among instruments.
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In December, Mr. Alorwoyie and several of his students traveled to New York for a performance of "Drumming" with the ensemble Mantra Percussion at National Sawdust, presented by World Music Institute.
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A shrinking world, a growing potential audience, an ever-shifting definition of authenticity and the insatiable curiosity of musicians: Globalfest, the annual New York showcase for world music, flaunts all those frictions.
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Over the course of about 52003 minutes, they will present a show that's simultaneously a world music concert, a dance performance and a one-ring circus, whose highlights include acrobats and contortionists.
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Back in September 2016, Dagens Naeringsliv also reported that Tidal had racked up 107 default notices for lack of payment, including to the Oslo World Music Festival, numerous record labels, and advertising firms.
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Music fans are mourning the death of Holger Czukay, a founding member of krautrock group Can and solo artist celebrated for his innovations in the realms of world music and sampled-based composition.
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One of the best of several locally-owned businesses in the North Loop neighborhood is Breakaway Records, heaven for vinyl junkies looking for a curated mix of 45s—particularly funk and world music.
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But what to do with all the music that already exists in the world — music that gave Lacey the kind of power he might have traded on to coerce and manipulate teen girls?
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Throughout the evening, gala attendees will hear performances by singer songwriter Joan As Police Woman, up-and-coming world music act Yemen Blues with Ravid Kahalani, and acclaimed proto-punk rocker Jonathan Richman.
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Clayton critiques the concept of "world music" by pointing to rough-and-tumble adaptations of house, techno, and hip-hop that are very global, but unlikely to pass the "authenticity" muster with WOMEX gatekeepers.
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In the early 1980s he moved to Paris, where he produced ballads in Lingala and pop versions of the rumba, more accessible to a Western audience that was increasingly eager for exotic "World" music.
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In 19873, Steffens co-founded a reggae-and-world-music magazine, The Beat , which was published for nearly thirty years; in 21987, he was invited to convene the first Grammy committee for reggae music.
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The phorminx, the kitharis, the krotala and the aulos - string and wind instruments reconstructed by musical group Lyravlos - echoed among marble statues in Athens's National Archaeological Museum as part of World Music Day celebrations.
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There's a sense of tacit agreement, then, between his music and that of Overall, a young drummer, producer and rapper who pulls from various world music traditions, electronic adventurism and left-field hip-hop.
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The Gnaoua World Music Festival, now in its 19403th year, always brings a crowd of thousands to Essaouira, Morocco; this month, a series of satellite events are taking place in Paris and New York.
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"As a classical musician, as a conductor and as a Chinese or world music writer, I listen to rock 'n' roll all the time, and I listen to jazz all the time," Mr. Tan added.
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At Tramps in the 1980s, he produced "Tonka Wonka Mondays," where unknowns performed jazz, rock and world music for professional critics, and a house band headed by David Soldier backed up invited jazz avant-gardists.
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He has been promoting the full diversity of world music for decades, freely juxtaposing traditions in a way that can sometimes seem designed to flatter liberal pieties about multiculturalism, but more often simply feels vibrant.
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The place is named Le Petit Bain and it features world music, so its owners were receptive to taking in the Migratory Cooks, believing that their focus on world cuisine would be a good match.
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He's a quiet, incredible and hugely talented French producer who was really excited to get involved in this— he's worked a lot with Ethiopian and other so-called world music and delivered a gem here.
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This concert, hosted by the Brooklyn M.C. Mikal Amin, will feature not only Brown Rice Family but also local musicians and student poets, all celebrating the world music and verse that grow from these roots.
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Presented by FunikiJam World Music, which offers both classes and entertainment to children, "City of Hope" honors Black History Month (February) by illustrating how African sounds and rhythms have influenced a variety of musical styles.
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The mysterious breakthrough of the group's self-titled album, "Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares" ("The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices"), coupled with the release of Paul Simon's "Graceland," helped usher in a "world music" movement.
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As a music major at Kenyon College, she inhaled varied forms—musical theatre, classical, folk, world music—and mastered few, instead working through her own experiments with upstart bands and nursing solo material by night.
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But bits of international media attention and gigs around East Africa began to get her recognised, and after entering a mix she was selected to play at the WOMEX World Music Expo in Spain last year.
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Blind Willie Johnson: The Rough Guide to Blind Willie Johnson (World Music Network) All of Johnson's 30 recordings are on Columbia/Legacy's The Complete Blind Willie Johnson double, the sorely missed "Praise God I'm Satisfied" included.
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Brooklyn Rider has continued that tradition, albeit, as its name implies, across the river: The members have dabbled in jazz, folk and world music, and recently released an album with the polymathic singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane.
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"I remember having a quick 'oh it's like mewithoutYou but played at 45rpm but with some wild world music sounding beats' – I definitely dug it, but didn't get it fully," he recalls, speaking for this piece.
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Ever versatile, ever exploring, the Kronos Quartet partners with a player of the South Korean haegeum — a fiddle of sorts — for a concert presented by the World Music Institute and the Korean Cultural Center New York.
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This is a Spanish avant-garde band from the 103's/210's that blended elements of world music, proto-house, ambient, and Indian classical, into this amazing melting pot of timeless atmosphere and quirkiness. 22.
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Now it is going up against the works of well-known performers in the world music category, earning the small, impoverished nation of Malawi its first chance at a Grammy Award, which will be announced Monday night.
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Nublu is now two separate clubs that are blocks away from each other on the Lower East Side's Avenue C. At both, the programming circles around the fringes of jazz, I.D.M., world music and progressive R&B.
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Kasai Allstars: Around Félicité (Crammed Discs) The fourth album from this biz-fabricated, many-armed Congotronics aggregation is a discographical muckup from a label always happy to exploit "world music" fans' craving for the next different thing.
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When Mr. Hurwitz took over in 1984, he was determined to remake Nonesuch as a home for maverick contemporary composers; in time, it also came to reflect his interests in world music, jazz and adult-leaning pop.
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B PLUS The Rough Guide to Gospel Blues (World Music Network) Given how much African-American rhythm sprung up in church, these guitar tracks tend shockingly static (Blind Willie & Kate McTell, "I Got Religion, I'm So Glad"; Rev.
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"We want to act as guides, like when you listen to Benji B's shows for electronic music, Gilles Perterson's ones for the new world music and jazz, or Mary Anne Hobbs for bass music," Szatan tells Trax Mag.
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Catch an A tram at the Pont de Pierre and cross to the right bank where you'll find the Rocher de Palmer, a suburban arts and concert venue with eclectic offerings like jazz, rap, classical and world music.
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This weekend, a group of monks who live at a remote island monastery in Assam will perform an evening of Sattriya at the Dancing the Gods Festival at Symphony Space, part of the World Music Institute's performance series.
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North African desert blues (or tichumaren in Tamasheq, the Tuareg language), has become arguably the most successful world music genre to break through since reggae, and few have wielded the guitar with such mastery and majesty as Bombino.
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Written by Brian Barrentine, the creator of Funikijam, which offers world-music classes and programs for children, the hourlong show promises Celtic lore and song, as well as fancy footwork from the Aherne Sheehan School of Irish Dance.
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People always ask me questions about appropriation, and when they ask me what kind of music I make, talking about the music as "world music" is kind of my joke—it's just the way I respond to all that.
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The term "world music" can be a tool of useful narration, a sign telling us where we stand in relation to other genres, or a weapon, something invented by a nefarious "they" to set borders and further divide us.
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For decades, world music was marketed in this country strictly in terms of its fealty to the past: It wasn't in conversation with the pop music made in the present day, but served as a counterweight and stubborn holdout.
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But I think we're seeing a shifting perspective on the way contemporary classical and jazz composition often draw on the ideas of hip-hop or world music or pop, as if to elevate them by carrying them into the concert hall.
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By that I mean that what some Westerners might hear as some kind of vague "world music" influence were for them a series of recognizable references, from the North African beats to the kinds of notes and scales we use.
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Born into both occupation and exile, it's entirely understandable that the Sahel to Cuba to Spain singer Aziza Brahim, while making some of the most sublime and lilting music in (ugh) "world" music arena, maintains her chief concerns; return, freedom.
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Paris Hilton's 2006 DUIWhere: Corner of Wilcox and Selma Avenue in HollywoodHistory: Shortly before 12:30 AM on September 6, 802007, police stopped Paris Hilton shortly after she left her "Nothing In This World" music video shoot with pal Kimberly Stewart.
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The Hollywood Bowl, which the Philharmonic operates on a lease from Los Angeles County, is a veritable cash machine, with its healthy box-office revenues bolstered by the pop, world music and movie nights that augment the Philharmonic's traditional classical concerts.
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An offshoot of the massive annual gathering of the nonprofit Association for Performing Arts Professionals, this showcase presented by the eclectic world music labels Electric Cowbell and Barbès Records celebrates its 10th anniversary on Saturday at this East Village performance space.
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It was a centerpiece of the secular, multicultural ritual that the saxophonist Paul Winter has performed for 37 years featuring the Paul Winter Consort, which has forged a melodic confluence of jazz, chamber music and world music, joined by various guests.
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The path from the two main stages to the blues, gospel and jazz tents leads past a Cultural Exchange Pavilion featuring world music and the Jazz & Heritage stage with performances by brass bands and Mardi Gras Indians, New Orleans's miracles.
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The European Parliament declares a theme for each year, and 1985 was the Year of Music — making it the perfect time for the festival to start spreading beyond France's borders and morphing into a more global event, World Music Day.
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More than 35 years after its founding, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, which loosely oversees the overarching Fête de la Musique/World Music Day, estimates that Fête de la Musique celebration spans 120 countries, often with multiple cities participating.
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Already a household name in his home country, then known as Zaire, Wemba met Peter Gabriel in the early 1990s as the British singer was beginning to promote and produce artists from around the globe as part of the burgeoning world music movement.
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Yes, there really is a music festival in the middle of a rain forest: the Rainforest World Music Festival (July 13 to 15), in Sarawak, Malaysia, in the heart of the Borneo jungle and in its 20th year, draws more than 20,000 attendees.
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Long celebrated in Europe for their contribution to "world" music - with Mali's Salif Keita, Senegal's Youssou N'Dour and Benin's Angelique Kidjo household names in trendy bars - West African musicians have struggled to make money back home, where poverty is widespread and music piracy rampant.
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I met up with Mounir Kabbij, who runs Ginger Sounds, a booking and management company that represents some of my favorite artists (2016 alone saw astounding albums from Alsarah and The Nubatones and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh) in the "world music" category or any other.
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Souleyman has performed at wedding ceremonies throughout Syria for more than two decades, but his take on the traditional dabke sound has made him a star beyond the region, and has been pegged by world-music explorers as the crown sound of the Middle East.
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Though rock and roll is often hailed as the quintessentially American sound and contribution to the global soundscape, this new exhibition argues that minimalist music is equally as American in its style, and fundamentally as groundbreaking in its effect on world music at large.
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During my visit, the city was hosting two festivals: Le Sud, a weeklong world music festival, and Les Rencontres d'Arles, a major three-month photography festival that's celebrating its 49th year of installing exhibits in stores and restaurants and grand edifices all over the city.
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B PLUS The Rough Guide to Blues Women (World Music Network) Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, and Ma Rainey all have their own fine comps; pickings are slim because women were underrecorded, and these picks don't beat the odds (Mamie Smith, "Crazy Blues"; Kate McTell Feat.
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His spellbinding virtuosity and urgently dynamic live shows have made fans of fellow musicians from Keith Richards and Robert Plant to Josh Homme and Win Butler, and built him a following that's crossed over from the world music community to the jam-band circuit.
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There is a lot of comfort in quote-unquote 'world music' because my father would only really play that in the house when he'd play music at all, but also I just want to listen to music that's not dictated by the Western classical canon.
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