The Influence of Popular World Music on Modern Western Music
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SummaryThe nebulous category of World Music has been defined as "simply not our music, it is their music (Rahkonen, 1)." World Music is thus a distinction based on otherness and not any singularly defining characteristic. It is a term that developed from the classification of popular music "to include all styles of music with ethnic or foreign elements (Rahkonen, 6)," defined in opposition to the western idiom. With respect to popular music today, World Music is often a syncretism of ethnic elements with popular western styles that creates genres such as bhangra-fusion (disco and Punjabi bhangra), reggae (from ska, mento, and R&B), and afro-beat (Yoruba drums, soul singing, jazz).
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- The nebulous category of World Music has been defined as, "simply not our music, it is their music"
- In his autobiography Raga Mala, Pandit Ravi Shankar discusses the path of his life in music.
- The evolution of Reggae music in Jamaica is an interesting case study in world music because it represents the fusion of a foreign influx with a local sound that is eventually exported back to that 'foreign' place as a new sonic amalgam
- The jerky ska rhythm slowed down to 'rock steady' with the influence of Brazilian Bossa and American Motown beats.
- The reggae chapter of world music finds its most interesting case-study in the example of the "Bhangramuffin" stylings of "Apache Indian"/ Steve Kapur
- These topics were chosen for their clear interplay between colonial and commerical forces, in which colonized populations drew from a musical influx to develop music that was both influential to, and to consumable by, the imperial nation
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