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Mixing up the world's beat: a new generation of border-crossing, genre-fusing musicians are remaking the soundtrack for our globalized world - global music TWENTY YEARS AGO, the Tuvan musician Albert Kuvezin had little experience with rock music: His knowledge came from a few heavy-metal reel-to-reels that ......(Continue Reading) Slap Happy: How to Play World-Beat Rhythms with Just Your Body and a Buddy - ReseƱa By Alan Dworsky and Betsy Sansby 72 pages/1 Play-Along CDs Dancing Hands Music/ISBN 0-9638801-7-9 This instructional music book for kids of all ages, ......(Continue Reading)Angelique Kidjo - World Beat - Brief Article "In Africa we have traditional singers who are considered the conscience of the people," says West African singer Angelique Kidjo, "but becoming a pop ......(Continue Reading)World Music Grammy - People, Places & Miscellany - Brief Article The Recording Academy has announced the creation of an additional World Music Grammy category. World Music is now represented by two sub-categories in ......(Continue Reading)And the salsa beat goes on: salsa is dead. Gone. Kaput. Forget about it. A comatose genre swallowed alive by other styles of Latin music: rock en espanol (First printed in The Chicago Tribune on December 21, 2004) For the last few years, the alleged death of salsa has been morbidly discussed in publications ......(Continue Reading)
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