A sweet lullaby for "world music". Feld, S. Homme, 12(171-172):389–408, 2004.
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How has « world music » moved from remote academic interest to global commercial marketplace? The article first concerns this history of « world music » as a discourse, narrated equally by tropes of « celebration » and « anxiety. » It then considers «world music » as a zone of interactions and contacts, as well as aesthetic and business practices. These are represented in a case study of a traditional lullaby first recorded in Solomon Islands by an ethnomusicologist, then sampled on a multi- million selling CD by a major European pop group, and then re-appropriated by a prominent European jazz musician. Finally, the article questions whether « world music » creates more artistic humiliation for indigenous traditions than true possibilities for new musical resistance or hybridity.
@article{feld_sweet_2004,
	title = {A sweet lullaby for "world music"},
	volume = {12},
	issn = {19538103},
	doi = {10.4000/lhomme.1445},
	abstract = {How has « world music » moved from remote academic interest to global commercial marketplace? The article first concerns this history of « world music » as a discourse, narrated equally by tropes of « celebration » and « anxiety. » It then considers «world music » as a zone of interactions and contacts, as well as aesthetic and business practices. These are represented in a case study of a traditional lullaby first recorded in Solomon Islands by an ethnomusicologist, then sampled on a multi- million selling CD by a major European pop group, and then re-appropriated by a prominent European jazz musician. Finally, the article questions whether « world music » creates more artistic humiliation for indigenous traditions than true possibilities for new musical resistance or hybridity.},
	number = {171-172},
	journal = {Homme},
	author = {Feld, Steven},
	year = {2004},
	keywords = {Globalization, Mmusical primitivism, Musical exoticism, Schizophonic mimesis, World music},
	pages = {389--408},
}

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