[FA Worldmusic] Angelique's Grammy

[Ian Anderson]

At 14:12 -0500 12/2/08, Robert Weisberg wrote:
>Ah, the old 'world music' semantic conundrum again.  Guess Angelique is
>not afraid to bite the un-genre that feeds her!
>
>(Although maybe then it's somehow appropriate that she lives in the US,
>where Grammies aside, 'world music' is somewhat less of a recognized,
>organized, marketed concepted than in Europe.)

You know, it would be really easy for these world music loathers to 
turn the awards down but they never do, do they?

In the UK, a musician called Nitin Sawhney is always banging on about 
how he hates the term, that it's a restricting ghetto for musicians 
blah blah blah, but he turned up the collect his BBC Radio 3 Award 
for World Music and - not once, but twice - applied for and got a 
showcase at Womex. I hesitate to use the word "hypocritical", but . . 
.  if they turned it down, then one of the many artists who DO 
appreciate what a boost this concept has given to their own careers 
and often their culture too could receive it instead.

And just think - no such thing as bad publicity - they could actually 
cash in on gaining column centimetres by the very act of turning the 
thing down. Good result all round!


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