Wald Global Minstrels

Voices of World Music
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-86367-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

As the fastest growing sector of the U.S. music market, world music has embedded itself in the fabric of American life. Artists such as Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and the Talking Heads have all utilized characteristics of the "world" sound in their music, while international performers are enjoying unexpected fame in the U.S. At the same time, in an era of unprecedented immigration and globalization, people all over the world are using music as way to preserve their local and ethnic identity.

Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music is an accessible introduction to international music and culture. Including conversations with dozens of artists from five continents, it explores the breadth of the world music experience through the voices of the musicians themselves. In the process, it gives a unique view of the interactions of a globalizing society and introduces readers to some of the most fascinating and thoughtful artists working on the current scene. Artists profiled include Oumou Sangare, Caetano Veloso, Ravi Shankar, Paco de Lucía, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and many more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wald, Elijah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section One: Africa
South Africa: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Zimbabwe: Ephat Mujuru and Stella Chiweshe
Mali: Ali Farka Touré
Oumou Sangare
Salif Keita
Congo: Tabu Ley Rochereau
Lucien Bokilo
Kenya: Fadhili William
Nigeria: Sir Victor Uwaifo
King Sunny Ade
Madagascar: Tarika Sammy
Cape Verde: The Mendes Brothers
Section Two: The Caribbean
Haiti: Tabou Combo
Emeline Michel
Trinidad: Mighty Sparrow
Dominican Republic: María Díaz
Fulanito
Puerto Rico: El Gran Combo
Yomo Toro
New York: Rubén Blades
Cuba: Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo
Juan de Marcos González
Los Van Van
Charanga Habanera and Gema Cuatro
Section Three: Latin America
Argentina: Mercedes Sosa
Sandra Luna
Peru: Susana Baca
Brazil: Gilberto Gil
Caetano Veloso
Olodum
Daniela Mercury
Mexico: Los Tigres del Norte
Section Four: Europe
Portugal: Mísia
Greece: George Dalaras
Haris Alexiou
Turkey: Barbaros Erköse
Italy: Paolo Conte
Hungary: Muzsikás and Márta Sebestyén
Kálmán Balogh
Scotland: Norman Kennedy
Dick Gaughan
France: Alan Stivell
Afro-Europeans: Zap Mama
Les Nubians
Section Five: Spain and Flamenco
Northern Spain: La Musgaña
Flamenco: Carmen Cortés and Manuel Soler
Paco de Lucía
Carmen Linares
Rumba: Gipsy Kings
Arab fusions: Radio Tarifa
Section Six: North Africa and the Arab World
Andalusian music: Hadj Mohamed Tahar Fergani
Morocco: The Master Musicians of Jajouka
Algeria: Khaled
Classical music: Simon Shaheen and Naseer Shemma
Iraq: Mahmood Anwar
Section Seven: Western and Central Asia
Turkey: Cinucen Tanrikorur
Iran: Kayhan Kalhor
Pakistan: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
India: The Bauls of Bengal
North Indian classical: Ali Akbar Khan
Ravi Shankar
Section Eight: East Asia
China: Wu Man
Japan: Ondekoza and Kodo
Section Nine: The United States
Hawaii: Raymond Kane
Dennis Kamakahi
Native American: Iron River Singers
Mexican: Jesse Morales "El Original de la Sierra"
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elijah Wald is a writer and musician who speaks several languages and has travelled widely around the world, first as a hitchhiking street musician and later as a somewhat more serious researcher. His books include Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (2004); Narcocorrido: A Journey into t he Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas (2001); Josh White: Society Blues (2000, 2002) and River of Song: Music Along the Mississippi (1998; with John Junkerman).