[FA Worldmusic] categorically labelled

[Evangeline Kim]

There are three most wonderful artists I had the great pleasure to see here 
live in New York  over the summer -

1. FALLOU DIENG, the now, finally emerging, Senegalese 'King of Ambiance,' 
who has played mainly to the massive Senegalese underground communities 
across the US, and yearns so much to be part of the World Music Festival 
circuits.  His last appearance at Joe's Pub this past Sunday real late at 
the last minute was sublime.  I'm writing up a review for Afropop and will 
post link here soon.

2. PUERTO PLATA, the incredibly great 84 year-old sonero from the Dominican 
Republic that Ned Sublette calls the "Buena Vista of the DR."  Dmitri is 
doing the publicity on this side of the pond and at 
www.rockpaperscissors.biz under his current projects you can read/hear a 
little all about it.  Puerto Plata will be performing September in specially 
great US World Music festivals -- listed on Dmitri's site.

3. SEUN KUTI, son of Fela, is very promising and will perform at WOMEX as I 
understand.

Best,
Evangeline




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Anderson" <ian at frootsmag.com>
To: <fa-worldmusic at folk.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [FA Worldmusic] categorically labelled


>>  > The problem is that the term "world music" really means
>>  > nothing...  But what are the essential
>>>  characteristics of  "world music"?
>>
>>Exactly.  The two words together form no literal meaning,
>>but we know what someone means (basically) when they use
>>the term.
>>
>>We also know that this broad grouping of music comes from
>>a certain perspective of other-ness that doesn't really
>>make much sense, but is pretty dominant.  So the term
>>serves its limited purpose and is slightly less oxymoronic
>>than many terms we use.
>
> And blah. And furthermore blah, etc.
>
> Sigh. Been here, done this. Some people think too much. It worked and
> works fine for what it set out to do, in fact considerably finer all
> told. And no small furry animals are harmed in the process.
>
> Welcome to the post-world music angst era.
>
> Been out and heard any good music lately?
>
>
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> Ian Anderson
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