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...borrowing the sounds of other cultures, creating vibrant hybrids that are then instantly disseminated around the globe to begin the blending process all over again. "Musically, to an unprecedented degree, the U.S. is part of the world and the world is part of our experience here," says Christopher John Farley, editor of this special issue devoted to capturing the verve, color and variety of the global-music phenomenon...
...TIME's pop-music critic, Farley was well primed for the assignment. In recent years he has traveled to Sweden, Brazil, Japan, the Bahamas, France, Mexico, Jamaica and Ireland, among other places. And, as a Jamaican native who moved to the U.S. as a kid, he was keenly attuned to the diversity of indigenous musical styles and traditions. Even so, Farley found he had a few things to learn about the international scene. When it came to Utada Hikaru, one of Japan's top singing stars, he "had always imagined her far away, in Tokyo or Kyoto. It was startling...
Chief reporter Lisa McLaughlin--like Farley, already an aficionado of world music--was delighted to find that her duties included continuing to do things she had been doing for years: combing through websites and Internet radio sites, reading foreign music magazines and exchanging tips with friends and contacts in countries from Jordan to China. "Best of all, though," she says, "was getting to interview...
...words of the immortal Chris Farley: Whoop-de-freakin'-do. Because as far as conflicts of interest go, those analyst portfolios are just the tip of the iceberg...
...argue with our choice of Best Novelist or Best Singer, but no one doubts each is a legitimate category. Where the debate gets trickier is whether some categories even merit inclusion, such as Best DJ. We ultimately decided yes, and music critic Chris Farley defends that decision in his story...