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Selda Bağcan: A Beginner's Guide
The trailblazing Turkish singer-songwriter and activist remains an icon of the 70s Anatolian psych scene. Daniel Spicer recounts a career full of revolutionary spirit and stirring protest songs
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A world of jazz and beyond at Poland's Jazztopad
As jazz festivals around the world start to embrace international sounds, Martin Longley got to grips with the eclectic line-up of the Jazztopad festival in Wrocław
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The Music of Korea: A Rough Guide
The Korean musical identity can be traced to the fifth century, and has been well documented since the fifteenth century, as Rob Provine and Keith Howard reveal
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Spotlight: Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
Daniel Spicer reports on a new collaboration between the son of a Malian guitar legend and the hypnotic trio from Houston, a lilting fusion of desert blues, psychedelia and dub
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The Rough Guide to World Music: Korea
The Korean musical identity can be traced to the fifth century, and has been well documented since the fifteenth century, as Rob Provine and Keith Howard reveal
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The great musical genres of the 20th and 21st centuries
The music of the world has been constantly shaped by its wider contexts – from politics to economics and social movements. Here Chris Moss selects the most important genres to have been born across the last 100-plus years
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WOMEX 2020 Digital Showcases: Day Three, October 23
Alexandra Petropoulos tunes in for the Friday Digital Showcases of WOMEX 2020 and picks her highlights, from warm maloya to jazz kaval
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Welcome to Africa’s largest music festival – Nyege Nyege
At the heart of Uganda’s vibrant, innovative and optimistic music scene, ‘Africa’s largest music festival’ Nyege Nyege continues to surprise and delight
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How Glastonbury is rethinking Indigenous and traditional music
Erin Cobby reports from this year’s Glastonbury Festival, where programmers are working to integrate diverse global voices into the line-up
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10 Essential Afro-Electro Albums
Choice sides of digital dancehall and mega Afrobeat ampage primed for incendiary boogie overload
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LASS interview: “It’s a cry from the heart to all young Africans that the future belongs to us”
The West African singer provides the inside track on prosperous musical encounters and the circuitous birth of his long-awaited debut album
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Inside Sibín Beag, Shambala’s wild new Irish trad rave venue
Erin Cobby reports from an Ireland-infused boozer at Shambala
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Ni Maxine’s Guide to Liverpool
Emergent Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Ni Maxine gives a musical guide to her city
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Torres Strait Music
Karl Neuenfeldt documents and records the music of Torres Strait Islanders (TSI) in Australia
