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Cover StoryUNESCO’s World of MusicThe UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music is an outcome of UNESCO’s aim to bring about lasting peace founded on “mutual understanding” and “the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.”...
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Recording SpotlightA Guide to the UNESCO CollectionHow does the dilettante music lover find a foothold in an unbelievably dense and intimidating catalog?
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Archive SpotlightFrom Analog to DigitalOvertime, both the “world music” commercial market and the intellectual climate for on-location study of traditional music had evolved…
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Community SpotlightI Want the Signals, Not StaticSo much of the music we consume is accompanied by this blinding aesthetic of music marketing and manufactured artist identity…
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From the FieldSurvival of the FittestWinter is the best time to find a singer in the Mongolian countryside, so long as you can deal with the cold…
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From the FieldYou Are What You HearI'd never heard anything quite like it before, and it punctured a hole in my armor of habitual listening.…
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video spotlight“Deltei Tsenkher” A Mongolian Long Song by R. LkhamjavR. Lkhamjav, sixty-six years old, sings a Khotgoid-style long song, “Deltei Tsenkher” (The Blue Dun), in Mörön, Khövsgöl province, Mongolia, in December 2013. Recorded by Sunmin Yoon.
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From the Collection
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Ethiopia: Three Cordophone TraditionsVarious Artists
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Afghanistan: Female Musicians of HeratVarious Artists
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Bali: Folk MusicVarious Artists
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Portugal: Festas in MinhoVarious Artists
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Central African RepublicVarious Artists
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Aka Pygmy MusicVarious Artists