World music

World music or world music called a hybrid of Western popular music and traditional non - Western musical forms. The concept emerged in the 1980s. The project initiated by Peter Gabriel WOMAD Festival and the label Real World played a big role in this.

With the popularization of the genre traditional music genres were subsumed under this term, which therefore is also considered a synonym for " Traditional non-European music." In recent years, the term therefore ran into criticism because he uses a strong Euro -centric view of music.

Here, the term should be understood as a special style within the meaning of border crossings and syntheses of Western popular music and traditional, mostly non-Western forms of music.

Historical Development

The integration of non-European elements in popular music in the tradition of modern classical music late 19th and early 20th century, which had already occupied with Eastern European folk music, as well as Asian music, such as the Indonesian gamelan orchestras.

In the U.S., at least since the 1950s, South American, especially Brazilian elements were added to the popular music.

1960s

Since the 1960s, extended jazz musicians, notably John Coltrane, their musical language towards specifically Indian and African sounds, melodies and rhythms. In Germany in the 1980s, it was mainly the music journalist Joachim Ernst Berendt, world music the music listeners closer brought; the first practical project with German jazz musicians, the Asian tour of the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet, already took place in 1964 and was then already presented by Behrendt on television. Since the 1960s, ie those areas of jazz have already received and processed elements of traditional, mostly non-Western forms of music.

Even rock bands like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones began to experiment with Indian and Arabic sounds in the second half of the 1960s. The Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar was very popular at that time in the West. Already in the early 1960s had developed in the U.S. the " Exotica " music, jazz, pop combined with Latin American, African and Hawaiian elements. Here, however, little emphasis was placed on authenticity.

Examples of the use of world music in the European new music are the electronic composition Tele Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the piece Exotica for non-European instruments of Mauricio Kagel.

Likewise, more and more musicians from non-European countries as political refugees or migrant workers came to Western countries. With the increased interest in non-European music and they grew stronger. Was particularly strong interest in African music during the American civil rights movement. In this context, among others, the South African Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela later to stardom in the West were.

African sounds also had influence on the emerging disco music.

1970s

Published by Patrick Moraz 1976 album The Story of I, a concept album that in South America, partly in Switzerland (including with bassist Jeff Berlin) was partially and Brazilian rhythms with popular music, Progressive Rock, coined by the romantic neo-classical, musical elements and Jazz association, is often referred to because of this wide range of styles than the first album of world music. Especially Peter Gabriel was impressed by The Story of I.

1980s and 1990s

In the 1980s and 1990s, the World Music was a boom. In these two decades, various world music festivals and world music fairs originated in Europe and North America. This was mainly due to the commitment of Peter Gabriel with his label Real World that emerged from the 1982 he founded WOMAD Festival. Festival label as presented in the West of new artists and bands from all over the world. So were known Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from Pakistan and Youssou N'Dour from Senegal in the west. However, the mostly non-European artists often produced under western conditions, for the European and North American market, partly also with Western musicians and western equipment. This often led to an adjustment of their music to the western taste in music.

In the 1980s, were so-called " world music " recorded and chart success in the West, including Ofra Haza and Mory Kante.

Also played a role Album de CREUZA moderate the Italian Fabrizio De André cantautore (in collaboration with former PFM member Mauro Pagani ) from 1984, which is characterized by non- European-style sounds, but is sung in the old Genoese dialect. Thus the spectrum of world music has also been extended to the traditional folk music, and expanded from exoticising Ethno on the repertoire of European Musikethnographie. This is an offshoot of the New World Music Folk music arose, starting at native songs the same prejudice and modern approach comes from the Alpine area as the classical music world to non-European.

Another important project was born in 1990. Under the name of One World One Voice, the musician Kevin Godley and Rupert Hine initiated a largely coherent piece of music, over 50 different musicians and bands from around the world worked together on the, including Afrika Bambaataa, Laurie Anderson, Mari Boine, Clannad, Johnny Clegg, Peter Gabriel, Bob Geldof, David Gilmour, Lou Reed, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sting, Suzanne Vega and the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra. It is a music album and a film were produced with the story and the video of the music. The project, which was the same in terms of nature conservation should show that music is a medium, a language is, the will is "spoken" world and understood.

2000s

The musician Damon Albarn of the band Blur presented an intense connection between particular African music scenes (especially Mali) and the British music scene here. Albarn brought various musicians to England and used African sounds on his albums. He produced the 2008 hit album Welcome to Mali of the Malian duo Amadou & Mariam.

From 17 to 20, 2007 was held for the first time in Germany at the federal level the finals of the World Music Competition in Creole instead. 21 bands who had been elected at the state level by seven sponsorships, there had the opportunity to win one of three prizes. The groups Ulman, Äl Jawala and Ahoar won. In addition Äl Jawala also won the Audience Award.

Today the term world music in the sense of a world music 1.0 are often viewed critically, since it implies a Euro -centric understanding of the non-European musical cultures that are only used by Western musicians to " orientalization " her to continue existing sounds. Nonetheless, acts such as those produced by Damon Albarn, Amadou & Mariam from Mali are very successful in the western charts. Since early 2011, a new term for today's world music is talking, by Thomas Burkhalter so called World Music 2.0:

" World Music, ridiculed in the world of pop and the club scene a long time, setting trends today. It is now called Global Ghettotech, Ghettopop, Cosmopop, Worldtronica or simply World Music 2.0 - The World Music interactive Internet platforms [ ... ] World Music 2.0 can be in a corset more force, it is contradictory and ambiguous. It sounds like the world's chaos, the hustle and bustle of everyday life, the anger about world politics and business, and hope to secure an existence via music. "

Music styles

• Ethno - Jazz
• Yiddish Music
• New folk music ( "Alpine World Music " )

Projects

Festivals

• Masala, annual World Beat Festival in Hannover
• Creole, German competition for world music at the federal and state level
• TFF Rudolstadt, annual folk and world music festival in Rudolstadt
• World Music Festival, Music Festival with a changing focus in Willinghausen - Loshausen
• Wild Tones - festival of folk and world music - in Braunschweig