"World" music

[Yesspaz]

Holy crap! Zoocore would be a great name for a band.

[Rick and Roll]

That's quite a link Mossy..(quite a link you got there big boy...)

It goes through a fascinating history of music for a number of years, but this nugget was toward the beginning:

"The term became current in the 1980s as a marketing/classificatory device in the media and the music industry, and it is generally used to classify any kind of "foreign" (i.e. non-Western) music."

Lazy, I say.....

"Zoocore" is a great name under one condition...you have to pronounce it

Zoh oh karet

[progdirjim(Admin)]

I suggested Rick start a thread because I thought World Music is an interesting name for a "genre", and less descriptive/meaningful then most. I also thought it would start a good discussion, and in that regard I'm patting myself on the back.

Krautrock is a descriptive term,and really doesn't imply Germany. There are German bands that are NOT Krautrock, and non-German bands that do play Krautrock.

I know we can argue eternally about what is and isn't a specific genre, or what to label something. But world music to me is a stupid name, and I'm not worried about being an ugly American. There is no comparison musically between Celtic music (which does have a "sound"), the Senegalese musicians Gabriel played with, Scandanavian folk, and Salsa, all of which is likely to be called "world" music. It's a stupid term. That's all. No political agenda, no concern about being PC.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

But world music to me is a stupid name, and I'm not worried about being an ugly American. There is no comparison musically between Celtic music (which does have a "sound"), the Senegalese musicians Gabriel played with, Scandanavian folk, and Salsa, all of which is likely to be called "world" music. It's a stupid term. That's all. No political agenda, no concern about being PC.

That's a very good point...i think "lazy" and stupid, too...

[kirk]

Man, Rick...when's the last time you were accused of being PC? LOL!!

I agree that "World" is just another classifcation, one that i'd rather the
rekkid stores made than myself. I've scored in "world" several times,
and here I am, such a Norwegian white boy that I almost qualify
as "clear" rather than white. So...America isn't part of the world?
World= "anything not by white Americans"? Even Native American
music is lumped into the category.

I consider Clannad (Enya's family, BTW) as maybe...Pop/Irish,
although when Enya (and her sister Maire) do it, it's "new age"

If I may be so bold as to ask my fellow Moonfolk's endulgence~
Please cast your ears to a merging of the Prog/World genres,
my latest tune "Mamaya". www.songplanet.com/zenpool

It's a feelgood, latin(ish) solo piece w/ me on all instruments,
chapman stick (my first!), flute, ac. guitar.
World, but w/ the tools o' the prog trade.

C. "Poppa Doc" Kirkendall

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by kirk

If I may be so bold as to ask my fellow Moonfolk's endulgence~
Please cast your ears to a merging of the Prog/World genres,
my latest tune "Mamaya". www.songplanet.com/zenpool

It's a feelgood, latin(ish) solo piece w/ me on all instruments,
chapman stick (my first!), flute, ac. guitar.
World, but w/ the tools o' the prog trade.

C. "Poppa Doc" Kirkendall

Great tune! You gave no vocal credit, are they real vocals or manufactured? Love the acoustic...

but you used "World" in your description

After the song played, Aural moon came on! (Salem Hill's Stolen by Ghosts)...is that an intentional link?

Finally, is that picture of you or Todd Rundgren?

Poppa Doc

[kirk]

Hey Rick-
Thanks! We went off the air before I had a chance to reply.

Real, manufactured...the line blurs. It started w/ a human voice,
I took it from there.

That's the 1st time that photo invoked Todd!
One Yesfan said I look like "the lost love child of Wakeman and Bowie" LOL!!
I was in one of my rare short hair phases, so I thought I should do
a publicity photo.
Glad you liked the tune, and I appreciate the support.

K