Still, she says she set out to make a dance CD, not a world-music CD.
Large record stores, what's left of them, often have whole "Afrobeat" sections in world-music departments, and more major cities are home to local Afrobeat bands than ever before.
Her position as a world-music star gives her an important platform for her activism: She's been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF for nearly 10 years, and has her own foundation to support higher education for girls in Africa.
On last year's Gulag Orkestar, Condon and his oversized band of New York-based indie world-music explorers sounded as if they'd been stranded not in Brooklyn, but somewhere near the Ukraine (but only after making a pit stop in Paris).
After the lunchtime event on the closing weekend of Celtic Connections - Glasgow's annual folk and world music festival - it will embark on its latest name change.
Its dystopian sensibility, international range of sounds, and smart, chic nod to the some of most respected innovators of '80s new wave and post-punk music results in a memorably stirring entry into the budding genre of indie-rock world music.
"I always loved world music - I used to get stoned and listen to the Mystere de Voix Bulgare Choir in the 1960s, all my friends did, " Boyd said.
Though the iPod was derided by some as exorbitantly expensive at the time of its launch in 2001, it has amassed some two-thirds of the world market for hand-held music devices.
The Klipsch Music Center product line commemorates the brand's partnership with Live Nation Entertainment and its sponsorship of the Klipsch Music Center amphitheater-one of the five most ticketed live music venues in the world-in its global headquarter city of Indianapolis.
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The songwriter was just adhering to that old adage of "writing what you know, " having worked as a full-time computer programmer prior to giving the music world a go -- though, as he readily admits, he still keeps it real by coding for his own site.
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Guarini says he faces many business challenges in the fickle and cut-throat world of music and entertainment.
While we ate and Lang and Eschenbach gossiped a little about the classical-music world, a large television tuned to CCTV murmured on the wall.
After all, the former UC Santa Cruz music professor's name has, over the past several decades, become closely tied to the world of computer-generated music -- it figures that the journey that began with punch cards would have eventually led to tablets and smartphones.
"Manhattan School of Music offers world-class musical education at a reasonable price, " said interim President Marjorie Merryman.
After making big plays in North America and Western Europe, former P2P piracy powerhouse and current legitimate download service Napster has finally set up shop in Asia, bringing its war with iTunes to the world's second-largest music market: Japan.
While the rest of the papers are falling over themselves to cover the launch of Apple's new iPod video, the Sun brings us news of another radical innovation in the MP3 world - the possibility of a music player being implanted in a woman's breasts.
"We are hoping to stabilise what we are selling and expand the areas that are not HMV-Fopp dependent, or dependent on big releases, " explained Mr Buckle, who is world-renowned for promoting and releasing music by Scottish music artists.
The script, by Helen Childress, is packed with knowing pop-culture references, and the soundtrack is filled with the music of college-radio favorites like World Party and Juliana Hatfield.
Their new show will begin on 4 July, the opening night of the 18-day Manchester International Festival, which specialises in world premieres and one-off events from the worlds of music, theatre and art.
From singer-songwriters to classical, world music, and Broadway stars, it's a celebration of the diversity of our thriving musical culture.
Recently, Papa Dee has travelled the world in his own TV series - a music documentary featuring jam sessions with local musicians.
Amidst the glorious dilapidation of what was a great imperial capital till 1917, and Leningrad till 1991, six orchestras, four chamber orchestras, three opera houses, a world-class conservatory and some 40 other music schools operate, more or less, as they have since the 1920s.
The one-time underdog from Cupertino is the biggest music company in the world and soon may rule the market for e-books as well.
The Android-based MOD Live ships with four new, industry first applications: Buddy Tracking, Smartphone Connectivity, a Navigation app pre-loaded with the largest database of trail maps in the world, Music Playlist Mode, and Camera Connectivity for use in the future with select wireless point-of-view action cameras.
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Synesthesia is Vayenas' debut recording on World Culture Music, an independent, artist-driven project.
Although Heritage's clients hail from around the world--thanks largely to the shop's online presence--local film and music stars come by in their limos to prowl the shelves in person.
Founded 26 years ago to showcase the burgeoning, eclectic music bubbling up deep in the heart of Texas, the festival has become the music world's most well-known and eagerly anticipated annual showcase.
Even as the Orchard has shifted from dealing in boxes of silvery discs to managing millions of digital songs, the company's real-world roots in a city with vibrant music and startup scenes has remained important.
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Reggie will play the role of Ultimate Ears' first ever "Head of Socio-Musicology" putting his social music theories to the test in a series of hilarious real-world experiments.
Corporate sponsored activities, meet and greets with artists and near-constant live music makes this forty year-old get together one of the most unique music events in the world.
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