“World Music” is such a misnomer. What is “World Music” after all? Could not every music be considered as “World Music”? From the perspective of big record companies based in the United States and United Kingdom, “World Music” is everything that is not American or British. It is another synonymous for “Exotic”. Something played in […]
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Celtic Vibes
September 3, 2012 
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You haven’t been to Ireland, if you haven’t been to an Irish pub listening to a band playing traditional Irish music. Back in early 2000, when on a cycling adventure around the Irish south coast, passing through a field of celtic burial mounds just before reaching Cork, I had the perfect preparation to the experience […]
Continue readingAfunaka’s Rorogwela: Sweet Lullaby from the Solomon Island sold as Pygmy music
September 2, 2012 2 Comments
Although Rorogwella gained popularity in 1992, when released by Deep Forest as a techno-dance music, it was first recorded in 1969 by the ethnomusicologist Hugo Zampin as a vocal sample. It was sung by Afunakwa, a Northern Malaita women from the Solomon Islands. In 1973, Rorogwela was released in a LP as part of UNESCO’s […]
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