http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/20050302182416419 Angel Romero World Music Central 552 Parkview Drive Burlington, NC 27215 USA (336) 437-0762 ...
Our calendar area, http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/calendar.php, has added many of this year's world and folk music festivals. We are aware that a handful of...
Can you suggest to whoever compiles this calendar that it would be helpful to put the country of each event on the actual calendar if it`s reasonably easy as...
Hi everyone, we will be starting a NEW "LIVE" Middle Eastern Music and Bellydancing event EVERY Saturday night beginning on March 12 2005 from 8 pm till...
We have a lot of great African and Francophone shows coming up at Joe's Pub. I may send some separate info about upcoming artists from Iran, Italy, Canada,...
I think I asked before but it bears repeating:I wonder if events advertised could have a brief country mention(UK or USA ect.)in subject box.It doesn`t take...
Yawn. Berimbau ... http://www.jrebelde.cubaweb.cu/2004/julio-septiembre/ago-5/print/oreja.htm ... goal ... to view ... movement in Cuba ... sexuality and the ...
This is great for political self expression, and "political correctness" but I suspect a decline in musicality and the craft of muscianship...that's how it...
Dear Ethnobeat, Issac is right on the money. Isn't everybody just sick of all this pretentious middle class political "Hollywood Ghetto" crap? Good God! Isn't...
It's amazing to see such hostility to a form of artistic expression that is over 25 years old in the US, continuing to be a growing force with yuth culture...
... Huh? You can't be serious. What about Woody Guthrie, or Bob Dylan, or Fela Kuti, or Bob Marley, or.......The list goes on and on. Of course there are...
Ian Menzies
ian@...
Mar 15, 2005 5:53 pm
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... Thanks for telling me, guys. Well, then it's goodbye to my Dylan collection, dadaism, Gil Scott Heron, most of my 60s stuff, the Eroica Symphony, a whole...
Chris Hoban
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Mar 15, 2005 10:49 pm
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Ian does make an excellent point regarding Woody, Fela, and the Bobs. My problem is that rap is EXXON, racist, sexist, and anti-intellectual. Modernity itself...
What does Sony have to do with underground hip-hop from women in Cuba? There is a huge distinction between commercial rap that gets played on MTV and the Hot...
My point wasn't that the politics makes music bad. I was speaking specifically about rap, some of which i like. The original article praised cuban rap for its...
I was referring to the article about Rap. The guys you mention were great musicians first an foremost. I'd hardly compare them to Rap lyricists of today with...
Radio Soleil in collaboration with Music for the Masses presents a return engagement by All-Star International Dance Band CHARANGA SOLEIL …where Cuba meets...
Not to quibble Isaac, but the statement of yours I took umbrage to was very broad indeed - you didn't even limit it to music let alone rap, but claimed that...
Ian Menzies
ian@...
Mar 16, 2005 7:49 am
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Even if it is too late for "Fiddy Cent" to redeem himself, it would seem to me that Cuban female hip hop deserves a bit more latitude than you currently seem...
Even if it is too late for "Fiddy Cent" to redeem himself, it would seem to me that Cuban female hip hop deserves a bit more latitude than you currently seem...
Greetings All! I have not been able to tune in to this group in a while having recently relocated from DC/USA to the south east. And I believe this is only my...
As a musician, I went through the same initial responses to early Rap / Hip Hop, and I must admit still lapse into that line of thinking. But have finally come...
In a message dated 3/16/05 4:09:03 AM, ethnobeat@yahoogroups.com writes: What a great thread, people! I'm sending the whole thing to Ned Sublette, who was the...
"As a musician, I went through the same initial responses to early Rap / Hip Hop, and I must admit still lapse into that line of thinking. But have finally...
Bernard Purdy is all the common ground anyone needs Isaac! Interestingly there is a piece in the NY Times today about the very thing you have been lamenting -...
Ian Menzies
ian@...
Mar 16, 2005 10:40 pm
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Dear Friends, In the vernacular, I'm not a hater, I'm a player. But what I play is MUSIC, pure and simple. The whole rap thing is SO idiotic for anyone with...
Hello everyone, Sharqui presents: The ultimate Bellydance Hafla, Saturday, March 26th 2005 , 730 pm. With performances by Oreet, (creator of Sharqui),Sharqui...
Rap is the legacy of Ronald Reagan? Hmmm, let's see...he was first elected in 1981. I suspect Richard may not be interested in the actual history of hip hop,...
Ian Menzies
ian@...
Mar 17, 2005 3:36 am
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Dear Ian, Look, we all read Nelson George and saw the VH1 special. My excuse? It was a rainy Sunday and the liquor stores were closed. Your timeline for the...
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