Music Traditions in Places of Political Unrest
Hosting Musical Migration, 2-7-2009 (radio show) My friend and colleague Gypsy Flores asked me to fill in for her on Saturday to do her world music radio show Musical Migrations . The show is now up on the Internet to listen to on demand; see below for locating the link. It will only be available till next Saturday. I found myself playing music from countries where there's a lot of political unrest and violence, e.g. Madagascar, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, India. The wonderful music from those areas is a poignant contrast. I had a little trouble finding CDs I wanted to play, because that section of the station library has moved around quite a bit since I last did a world music show. Some curious segues resulted. You can see exactly what was played by referring to the playlist (originally broadcast 2/7/2009). Player of Valiha, Malagasy Art Gypsy Flores is the regular host of Musical Migrations on Saturday afternoons, 3-5 (PT). KUSP Radio is now offering On Demand downlo...