David Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >World music is a pretty broad term. If you think about it, when kids in >England listened to blues from Chicago, wasn't that world music too?
Exactly. The phrase "world music" is meaningless ... it's an ethnocentric marketing designation connoting music from everywhere else on Earth other than the dominant USA/Euro culture; bottom line, isn't all human music "world music"? As far as Western musicians incorporating musical elements from non-dominant cultures, Joni, of course, with "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" from 1975 and "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" from 1977. Even earlier, Weather Report introduced elements of nonwestern music in their blend starting in 1970-71. And The Beatles, even earlier ... "Revolver" in 1966, if not "Rubber Soul" in 1965. Earlier still, Getz/Gilberto in 1963. Or Dizzy Gillespie blending Cuban rhythms with jazz in the 40s and 50s. And really, even jazz itself, in its very essence. -Fred
