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Soapbox: Racism and the Music Industry
“What may begin with the throwaway use of language ends with economic, social and artistic injustice”
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Save the Waves
A new compilation has been launched in response to proposed cuts that could silence public broadcasting in the US
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My Instrument: Noor Bakhsh and his benju
Chris Menist speaks to the Pakistani master of the keyboard-fitted zither, which holds a central role in the music of Balochistan
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Ballads on the Box
Two new TV shows, The Gallows Pole and The Change, give British and Irish folk music starring roles
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Live Session with Sam Lee at the House of Music Hungary
British Folk singer Sam Lee performs ‘Meeting is a Pleasant Place’ at the House of Music Hungary in collaboration with Songlines
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Dispatch from Puducherry, India
Daniel Spicer heads to the Bay of Bengal in search of Carnatic music’s “true voice of the Indian soul”
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Songs of the Silenced
A new instalment from the Yiddish Glory project revisits lost Yiddish songs from World War II ghettos and labour camps, though this time the themes are broader. “In ghettos, what they find funny is toilet humour”, hears Simon Broughton
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Making music in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp
Kakuma Sound’s co-founder reports from one of the world’s largest refugee camps, an inspirational musical wellspring for social change
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Margaret Barry and The Bedford Arms: “Standing with her banjo slung around her, head thrown back and emitting a sound so loud and clear”
Alan Woods takes a look at the legendary Irish singer’s music and the London pub in which she gained much of her reputation
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Setting the Scene: Elana Sasson
Fresh from the release of her ambitious ensemble album, In Between, the singer-composer waxes lyrical about cultural life in her new home of Valencia
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Jamz Supernova's My World Interview
Russ Slater Johnson hears from the DJ sharing cutting-edge global and electronic sounds. “I wanted to be your alternative Black show,” she confesses
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Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: "We wanted to fit our style, and pizzica, into the idea of a Western pop song"
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino perform the vibrant pizzica music of southern Italy. Ciro de Rosa speaks to bandleader Mauro Durante about how they brought this rhythmic tradition into the 21st century
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20 Years of Morgenland
Simon Broughton visits Morgenland Festival in Germany for an opening concert celebrating 20 years of an event which has provided a vital showcase for many artists from the Middle East and North Africa
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Introducing: wordsofAzia
Chinonso Ihekire speaks to a young Ivorian spreading messages of hope, faith and heritage
