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In the News (Mon 28 May 12)

  
  World music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In musical terms, "world music" can be roughly defined as music which uses distinctive ethnic scales, modes and musical inflections, and which is usually (though not always) performed on or accompanied by distinctive traditional ethnic instruments, such as the kora (African lute), the steel drum, the sitar or the digeridoo.
World music is generally agreed to be traditional, folk or roots musics of any culture that is created and played by indigenous musicians or that is "closely informed or guided by indigenous music of the regions of their origin"
World music as a cultural-economic phenomenon is inextricably linked with the invention of sound recording and the development of the international recording industry, but the background to its emergence covers the whole span of modern Western musical history, and what some analysts have deemed the digital revolution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_music   (7087 words)

  
 Micronesia Life
The collapse of the Doha round negotiations at the World Trade Organisation is cause for celebration by poor people and powerless governments around the world.&...
The old Soviet lighthouse on the edge of Pitlun lagoon is the best place to see one of the rarest whales in the world.
The Pictures remake of "Around the World in 80 Days" will be screened in Honolulu to raise money for the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation USA.
www.micronesialife.com   (420 words)

  
 Englishman in New York
One waved his hand in defeat and hurried away from the victor, Boris Bolotnikov, an 81-year-old veteran of World War II, more commonly known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.
Bolotnikov wore a white shirt and tie, a baseball cap, a pair of impossibly large, mirrored sunglasses, and a blazer decorated with at least 20 badges and medals earned during his time in the Red Army.
He printed 200 copies of the book, which tells the story of a woman who saves the earth from the forces of evil, and he seems pleased that he has managed to sell half of them.
pdberger.com   (1662 words)

  
 Our Lecturers
MA in history, Edinburgh University—worked for the BBC, initially for the Burmese Section, later in Radio 4 and in commercial television—has written widely on travel—now living in a Spanish village, she organises walking tours with her husband Adam Hopkins in western Spain.
Obtained his PhD at Sydney University and lectured there in Spanish and Catalan—has lived in Spain for many years and is currently Director of Studies at the Anglo-American Institute in Barcelona, teaching language analysis and logic—his interests and publications concern Spanish and English religious history—has led many tours in Spain.
Freelance art history lecturer with a particular interest in art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance—her doctoral thesis from the Warburg Institute was an interdisciplinary study of Sienese society in the fifteenth century—currently working on articles for publication—has led many tours in Italy.
www.martinrandall.com /biographies.php   (1098 words)

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