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...answer: all were English-language adaptations of music from other languages."World music" is the phrase du jour for exotic sounds from Africa, Asia, South America - what used to be called the Third World. Today world music is available everywhere; type the words into your Google search line and get about 3,070,000 websites. World music has its own Billboard chart, its own radio shows, if mostly on college stations. But it's a specialized, affirmative-action genre. Even if the definition is enlarged to include pop music from the Old World (from France, Italy, etc.), world music rarely...
...finally getting to the point - anyone with an ear to the radio got a world tour. Earlier decades had welcomed a few musical refugees: "Perfidia" in Glenn Miller's version, Eddy Duchin's cover of "Brazil", the Andrews Sisters' hot-Yiddish "Bei Mir Bist du Schön." But the '50s truly internationalized music on the radio; it turned AM into...
...Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. was appointed Tuesday to the advisory board of Digital Learning Interactive, a company providing online resources to college professors...
...Coffee Break: Le Barbare tearoom, Escalier du Marché 27. A charming café on a narrow cobblestone street in the middle of Old Town. Hot or cold chocolate topped with whipped cream are its specialties. Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., weekends 8:30 a.m. to midnight...
...nation's art film are gone, the export industry for filmed entertainment has never been more robust. Every kid cherishes Pokémon. Every lurker in specialized video stores knows the "violent pink" sex melodramas. Anime is everywhere. And actor-director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano is the tough guy du jour...