The term “world music” has never been adequate to the task we’ve set it—even in its most benign reading, it implies a division between the listener and the rest of the world. And if that listener is in the United States, our country’s global hegemony in popular music colors the term’s meaning too. Americans don’t […]
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The Reader’s guide to World Music Festival Chicago 2019
The World Music Festival’s 18 free concerts, spread out over 17 venues, provide us with dozens of opportunities to get to know
our neighbors better—both across the street and around the globe.