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Breaking cultural boundaries. (noticelj/flickr)
Today, two perspectives on how local music cultures can reach a global audience. First, we’ll hear how musicians outside the US are holding their own against American pop. Then, a look at an organization that helps musicians hindered by government censorship in their home countries find new audiences abroad. Plus: guitar sideman extraordinaire Carlos Alomar plays live and talks about being a Latino in rock.
A Global Monoculture? Not Yet
Lady Gaga, Eminem and other American cultural exports have captured the hearts of music lovers worldwide. But University of Minnesota economist Joel Waldfogel says that local music cultures may be holding their own too. His data set? The pop charts.
A Forum for Impossible Music
In many places around the world, musicians are the target of governmental censorship. And if authorities deem a song or style or simply the act of playing music too controversial, an artist can face threats or even imprisonment. But in Brooklyn, NY, Austin Dacey’s Impossible Music Sessions are working to give those artists a voice – and an audience.
Carlos Alomar
Carlos Alomar co-wrote the song “Fame” with David Bowie and John Lennon, and has played guitar for Bowie, Iggy Pop, The Scissor Sisters, and Alicia Keys. He joins us to play live, to talk about being a Latino artist in the rock world, and to discuss new frontiers in music technology.
Today's Playlist:
1- David Bowie - "Fame"
2- Live Performance Sheherazade - excerpt from Movement 1
3- Live Performance "Blues in G"
4- Carlos Alomar - "Hallucination"
Musiconomics
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