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Review
Bordowitz generously introduces world music by editing his interviews with musicians of many cultures to read like statements from them, sans his questions and comments. The subjects, more than 60 in all, include very well-known (e.g., Gloria Estefan, Hugh Masakela, Ravi Shankar) and important but less familiar (e.g., Jimmy Cliff, Fela Kuti, Coxsone Dodd) Third World performers as well as two Americans (Michael Doucet, Paul Simon) with stakes in world music. All relate their musical passions and purposes. Burning Spear (aka Winston Rodney) and Black Uhuru's Duckie Simpson address the mainstream perception that reggae begins and ends with Bob Marley, the latter expressing resentment while Spear takes a spiritual approach to the situation. Nigeria's King Sunny Ade, hyped as the next world music superstar after Marley's demise, voices no regrets as he discusses introducing new instruments into his irresistible juju music. ... Great stuff for what the Rastas might call conscious music collections. ((Reviewed November 15, 2004)) Copyright 2004 Booklist Reviews.
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Noise of the World:
Non-Western Musicians
in Their Own Words |
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by Hank Bordowitz |
Format: Softcover |
Pub. Date: March 2005 |
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Publisher: Soft Skull Press |
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buy at Barnes & Noble |
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