Jim Moray, that sweet-faced darling of the new-trad folk music movement, has come up with a truly clever way to raise money for his projects. What Jim Moray is doing is thinking on his feet. Perhaps you once hit the “like” Jim Moray button on Facebook? The internet will recently have delivered a link to [...]
Along with heating up leftover Chinese food and digging stubborn tree needles out of the carpet, New Years brings the inevitable look forward to the new year, and our hopes and fears for the coming months. I recognize the difference between Resolutions and Predictions, that my resolution to floss and exercise more will doubtless result [...]
According to this story in the New York Times, the world music world has lost a great scholar and advocat. Long before the term was bandied about, Mr. Roberts was listening to, seeking out and reporting on what is now called world music. He wrote several seminal books on the subject for a general readership, [...]
Like a William Gibson novel, Pod by the Afro Celt Sound System and the Japanese ‘pod’ hotel on its cover are just slightly ahead of our time. With the advent of the iPod, it makes this cover an eerily self-fulfilling prophesy.
Another indication that world music is becoming a global phenomenon. This story in the New York Times of December 5, 2009 lauds the world music of Senegal, and its biggest star, Youssou N’Dour. There’s even a video tour of Dakar after dark.