> On 20 April 2021 at 18:43 John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 4/20/2021 02:50:33, mike wilson wrote: > > > >> On 19 April 2021 at 22:47 John <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > > > >> Mostly Jazz, Pop & Rock from the 40s through the "naughties" and about half > >> of it reflects of how American music filtered through Europe (particularly > >> France) to their former colonies and came back to us as World Music. > > > > That's an interesting perspective. My understanding of world music is that > > it's attractive precisely because it is not derived from types popular in > > the > > nothern/western quadrant of the planet. > > -- > > I don't think it's the sum total of "world music", but the parts I enjoy > listening to mostly have some relationship to "American" music (40s, 50s, 60s > ...), if nothing more than being inspired by it or inspired by its > derivatives. > > When I was in Iraq, there was satellite TV in our day-room/office and the > channels we could get were CNN, Fox News, BBC World News, MCM (a French music > channel a la MTV) and a Turkish "fashion" channel (???). > > During the duty-day the TV would be tuned to CNN, Fox or BBC, but after hours > we > could switch to the other two channels - MCM or the Turkish fashion channel. > I > always opted for music when it was my turn to choose. > > MCM had some American rock 'n roll, a LOT of French rock 'n roll (and French > hip-hop & French rap music) and "French" rock 'n roll from Africa and Asia.
No Mongolian throat singers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvan_throat_singing No Ethiopian qenet songs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kignit That's very limited programming. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
