I like that second one a lotI despise the term 'world music' though
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Mon 3 Oct 2011, 19:13,
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Yes, a product of the unfortunate need to categorise everything into nice convenient boxesI've often thought it might be better just going from A to Z, but the categories do at least have the virtue of making some good stuff easier to find.
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Mon 3 Oct 2011, 19:32,
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I don't mind the idea of categories as suchIt's just the term "world", when it's really just folk music that isn't British or Irish in origin basically. And folk is a much better term for it.
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Mon 3 Oct 2011, 19:58,
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That depends...what a particular artist is playing may not be regarded as folk music in their own country, so that term becomes inaccurate. What people like Youssou N'Dour or Salif Keita do is more likely to be seen as pop music in their respective countries, for example.
"World music" is one of those terms that came about by accident, as I recall. Something someone said in passing that just stuck as a catch-all for anything we don't already have a name for. Not that any of the terms we have can be terribly accurate at times. I mean, Bellowhead became the first English act to appear at Womad in the UK when they had played Womad in other places around the world. So they were "world" when they're outside the UK, but "folk" when they're here. It's all a bit silly really, but then, not much we can do about it.
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Mon 3 Oct 2011, 20:34,
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"World music" is one of those terms that came about by accident, as I recall. Something someone said in passing that just stuck as a catch-all for anything we don't already have a name for. Not that any of the terms we have can be terribly accurate at times. I mean, Bellowhead became the first English act to appear at Womad in the UK when they had played Womad in other places around the world. So they were "world" when they're outside the UK, but "folk" when they're here. It's all a bit silly really, but then, not much we can do about it.