Artist’s discussion hosted by John Eden with DJ/Rupture and Brian Shimkovitz
Andy Moor, guitarist of the Dutch band The Ex and co-manager of the label Unsounds, cut to the chase in his online article for Mute magazine entitled “I Like Listening to Awesome Tapes from Africa” (http://www.metamute.org/).
“The recent resurgence of interest in African music arguably breaks with existing stereotypes only to replace them with new ones. But who is benefiting from African music’s soaring popularity?
How are the existing scenes of living musicians in African countries responding to this interest? Are the popularising efforts of Giles Peterson and Damon Albarn a new scramble for Africa or a case of world music 2.0? Can meaningful collaborations between musicians who share an anomalous or overtly hostile relation to the national and genre traditions they’re supposed to ‘come from’ disrupt normalising anthropological tendencies?“
Andy Moor, “I Like Listening to Awesome Tapes from Africa”
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/i_like_listening_to_awesome_tapes_from_africa
The English theorist and blogger, John Eden, hosts the discussion on the political implications of this new world music with DJ/Rupture and Brian Shimkovitz at the Audio Poverty artist’s discussion on Saturday.
Listen/download full audio on the documentation page.