You do? Then hie thee to the National Concert Hall on March 3rd for a Waltons World Masters Concert featuring the pentatonic shreddings of renowned guitarist, composer and singer Habib Koité and his group of virtuoso musicians.
Booking info here.
(Thanks Orla Smith)
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Eh, I’m alright thanks, I’ll leave it.
World Music has to be the worst genre of music ever. Still tho, this is pretty decent.
“World music” isn’t a genre, for crying out loud. It’s a lazy catch-all term that means “music made by people who are not from Britain, the US, Australia and some of their immediate neighbours and who sing in languages that are not English”. Which is most of the music on the planet.
World music is a genre.
In a very tiny part of the world. But anyone who seriously uses the term “world music” as a genre is displaying massive ignorance and arrogance about music and global culture. But sure keep going with that, Digs.
It’s NOT a genre! LiamZero is right; it’s a lazy term for anything not perceived as ‘home-produced’. A nation’s sounds deserved to be referred to as such and not labelled ‘world music’ which only has the definition of being from Planet Earth.
John Kelly denounced it / explained it wonderfully on one of his shows but I canny find it.