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Monday's mp3: The Buena Vista Rumba Club Loses its Founder

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2008-08-18 10:55:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
...musical resurrection? Not to mention that the upbeat music was a joy to the ears If you know anything about Kolosoy, you've probably heard the legend of his song "Marie-Louise." It's said that when he sang that song, the dead got up and danced. It became his first Pan-African hit in 1948, which illustrates the man's staying power His music...
 
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World Music Top 10 - August 2008 selections

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2008-08-15 14:01:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
...Music Meeting Festival Highlights 2008 Umalali -- Merua -- The Garifuna Womens Project Cuchata -- Dia Del Sol -- Cuchata Gipsy.cz -- Mulin -- Romano Hip Hop Dem Trio -- Huseyni Taksim -- The Fountain So Kalmery -- Imane -- Bendera Kishore Kumar -- Ina Mina Dika -- Doob Doob ORama 2 Firedance -- Firedance -- Spirit of the Drum Cascabulho -- Na...
 
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Mauritania On Air

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2008-08-14 16:47:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
...music, but when Al-Balaghat came on, it was more important. The other world was for leisure, but this was something that could change your life mp3] Al Balaghat sample You can read the complete story and listen to more audio here I can't understand the language, but I can appreciate the artistry in the musical reading of the announcements....
 
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Monday's mp3: Remembering A Friend to Earthquakes

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2008-08-11 13:00:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
...musicians Reem Kelani and Marcel Khalife Born in Western Galilee, Darwish published dozens of books of both poetry and prose, and was known for his powerful poetic imagery about identity, struggle, and religious themes. He wrote in Arabic, so I haven't (can't!) read the original, but translations of his work can be found, such as this one by...
 
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Music of China and Tibet...and elsewhere

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2008-08-08 14:39:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
...Music of China and Tibet to mark the opening of the Olympics and the various complexities surrounding the games. A special shout out to the members of Team Darfur , particularly those who found their visas for China revoked and themselves thereby banned from the games because of their principled stand in favor of human rights in Sudan Artist...
 
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Is Dance an Olympic Event?

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2008-08-07 11:24:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
You might wish it were, listening to this compilation. If the three tracks I've heard are any indication, this is what the clubs will be pumping at the many after-parties sure to be happening every night of the Beijing games. That is, if the authorities aren't put out by the compilation's subtitle: A Tribute to Human Rights This collection...
 
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Summer Party Soundtrack

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2008-08-05 18:17:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
...music is going to want to release them into the neighborhood this summer mp3] Sidestepper: Que Sera (radio edit from The Buena Vibra Sound System more on the group at www.sidestepper.net
 
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Mondays mp3: Big African Fun

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2008-08-04 18:22:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
...music recently, I found a wonderful compilation of performances at the Dutch Music Meeting festival from 2001-2003. These aren't commercially available, so they're really a treat if you can find them (or find a radio station that plays them for you Rumba Makossa" is something of a swinging, Latinized version of the Dibango classic "Soul...
 
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Big Blue Blob

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2008-08-02 21:04:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
CD REVIEW various artists: Big Blue Ball Real World Records Eager curiosity may be the best description of my feelings upon learning that Peter Gabriel had collected a number of sessions taped in his Real World studios over the course of 18 years and assembled them into a new CD. The album features the likes of Francis Bebey, Natacha Atlas,...
 
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New Global Releases: Spin The Globe playlist

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2008-08-01 19:31:00 by S A Stevens in SoundRoots World Music & Global Culture
...music" -- perhaps from here on I'll try to take my own advice and instead use more specific terms when possible Here's the playlist from today's Spin The Globe (heard on KAOS-fm), featuring selections from recently released global albums...of all kinds Spin The Globe - 2 August 2008 Artist - Song - Album hour 1 Warsaw Village Band -...
 
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