Matthew Levinson

Global minded

Published on 16/10/07
by matt

The most reductive thing local record shops – though not the ones I visit – stick on their section heads has always been ‘world music’. It means nothing – it basically says the sum of music from Brasil, Serbia, Japan, South Africa and (maybe?) France and Germany is no more than a single western genre, say, indie rock.

Time for a new definition. And as usual, a travel-lagged Jace slash Rupture has the goods.

world music is music with truly global reach. Think U2, Beyonce. So, 50 Cent is one of my favorite world music artists right now.

With all those guys squashed in the world section, maybe there’ll be space to let the Australian indigenous cats out of the bag.

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