Re: Youssou N'Dour: Living In The Ground

"Papa Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Afrobeat is actually a term used by Fela to describe his music
> to the African music fan N'Dour and Fela are as you suggest, world's apart
> but still represent the higher levels of modern African music
> I was not really sure what points you were trying to make and didn't see the
> value of dragging in socialism and Chuck D
> 
> A

Andy, Andy, Andy, thank you for the comment but I can't let this go. 
Politics are more or less important for those artists respectively,
and I was using Chuck D as a familiar example for US audiences to draw
out the point that both of them are rather eclectically traditionalist
in terms of their perceptions of the African community, but worldly
and modern enough for all that ("I.T.T." is a damn perceptive analysis
of globalization as we have come to understand it -- a force almost
outside space and time).