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Traditional music and the World Music marketplace: A producer’s experience

Issue: Vol 3 No. 3 (2008)

Journal: Popular Music History

Subject Areas: Popular Music

DOI: 10.1558/pomh.v3i3.295

Abstract:

The piece uses the career of Youssou N’Dour as a template for studying the conflicts between tradition and modernity in the World Music marketplace. Contrary to expectation, preservation of tradition is usually proposed by ‘First World’ producers while the artists mistakenly support technological distortions of traditional rhythms in the hope of reaching a modern international market.

Author: Joe Boyd,

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