MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Atavism, Fred Ho, Black Pride
23 Jun 2015
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The 1965 beatles release of norwegian wood , which includes george harrison"s ravi. Shankar-inspired sitar playing, represented the leading edge of a growing interest in nonwestern music. Though many western pop musicians followed harrison"s lead into this creative arena, few attained the commercial success that paul simon had achieved with his 1986 release of graceland. Graceland features an eclectic mixture of musical styles, including the vocal group ladysmith black mambazo, the ghanaian master drummer okerema asante, and american influences featuring zydeco and cajunto. While the album drew worldwide attention to the music of south africa, simon faced numerous accusations that he misappropriated and exploited the music and musicians for personal gain. While there is perhaps a grain of truth to this claim, simon"s effort, however, underlines the perils that await any artist who crosses culturally demarcated boundaries of race, class and ethnicity to create a new musical hybrid.
