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...quest for change has often been a family affair: many top global-music performers, including Nigeria's Femi Kuti (son of Fela), Jamaica's Ziggy Marley (son of Bob) and Brazil's Max de Castro (son of Wilson Simonal), are the children of musical pioneers. Now, around the world, old traditions are being revived, remolded and returned to prominence by a new generation and new technology. In Tijuana, Mexico, young DJs are crossing traditional norteno (a polka-like music) with not-at-all-traditional techno to create a fresh genre, Nortec. In Bogota, Colombia, the rock duo Aterciopelados is mixing...
...mutually exclusive categories. In the '80s Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel blended world beats. More recently, Sting scored a hit with Algerian rai star Cheb Mami, Lauryn Hill covered Bob Marley on MTV Unplugged, and Britney Spears has made a habit of working with Swedish songwriter Max Martin. Madonna, on her latest tour, drew from so many cultures for sonic and sartorial inspiration, it was a surprise Kofi Annan didn't join her for an encore...
...have been haunted by the specter of globalization, of a star-spangled world in which a parade of powerful letters--the U.N., the WTO, the IMF--hammers the diversity of the planet into homogenized goop. But Aterciopelados insisted on recording its latest CD in its hometown of Bogota. And Max de Castro projects blown-up images of old Brazilian LPs at some of his concerts to remind audiences of his country's heritage. Many new global artists have the curiosity to wander the earth with their music and the integrity to stay connected to their homelands. This is the help...
...most outsiders are almost certainly unaware that Sao Paulo is home to Max de Castro, 28, a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who just might be the most original musical talent to have come out of Brazil in three decades. That's no small statement. Music in Brazil is like sunlight: it's natural, it's elemental, it illuminates every building, every river bend, every aspect of life. "Dancing and music are in our blood," says William Nadir, 23, a Sao Paulo motorcycle deliveryman. "You can spot strangers by the stiff way they move their hips...
...contest to fill the seat left by the late congressman J. Joseph Moakley Jr.—a 30-year veteran of Boston’s political scene—drew national attention early on with the dramatic dropout of early frontrunner Max Kennedy, the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy ’48. Kennedy’s departure left the field wide open, and Lynch quickly pulled up to dominate the primary despite criticism of his relatively conservative politics and on his financial fumbles in personal college loans and real estate deals...