This year’s WOMAD, one of the biggest World Music Festivals, is packed with the very best. One big highlight is Gilberto Gil, the Brazilian musician with a long history of political activism. Gil is one of the main minds behind the Tropicalia musical movement, which was not just about art, but also a witty and […]
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September 4, 2012 
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“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 […]
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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