Folkways Collection – Music of the World

Adam has written before here,here,here, here, here, here, here , here and here, about this marvellous series from the Folkways Collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D. C., originally done in conjunction with CKUA Radio in Canada, being broadcast on National Radio just after the 11 pm news on Friday Nights. Podcast available here.

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Episode 18: Music of the World
The phenomenal diversity of the Folkways collection becomes immediately apparent when one examines the field recordings of ethnic music which Moses Asch collected from around the world. In many respects, this body of work set the stage for the explosion of so-called ‘world beat’ and ‘world fusion’ music in the 1990’s. This is the first of two programs dedicated to this subject, incorporating both original recordings from Folkways and modern examples of world music hybrids.