Re: Youssou N'Dour: Living In The Ground

Like Andy, I'm not too sure what is the point being made. Some of it sounds
interesting, but calling "them" (Check D and who?) "rather eclectically
traditionalist in terms of their perceptions of the African community" loses
me.

But there is some great hip-hop coming from Africa, for those those that
fancy some "ecletically contemporary perceptions".

M

Jeff Rubard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Papa Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > 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).