Christian World Music -
- a radio programme idea
It will probably start as a short "slot" to be placed within existing radio programmes. But the eventual idea is to form the content into full radio programmes.
But we don't just want to play music. We want to be able to tell stories about the music we play, covering such aspects as -
- Who are the artists?
- Are there any stories behind the music they perform?
- Where the vocals are not in English, what meaning can we provide to an English speaking audience?
What is World Music?
Well according to Wikipaedia
"The term world music includes
* Traditional music (sometimes called folk music or roots music) of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians or that are closely informed or guided by indigenous music of the regions of their origin, including Western music (i.e. Celtic music). Most typically, the term world music has now replaced folk music as a shorthand description for the very broad range of recordings of traditional indigenous music and song from around the world.
* Other non-Western music (including non-Western popular music and non-Western classical music)
World music does not include
* Western popular music
* Western Art music (i.e. European classical music)
* Any post-ska genre of Jamaican music[citation needed]
* Reggaeton
Then there's also the related term World Beat, for which Wikipaedia states -
In popular music, worldbeat refers to any style of music which fuses folk music, often from non-traditional sources (essentially, outside the Appalachian folk and Celtic traditions) with Western rock or other pop influences.
Worldbeat is usually said to have begun in the mid-1980s when artists like David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, and Paul Simon began incorporating influences from around the world, especially Africa and Latin America. Within a few years, worldbeat became a thriving subgenre of popular music that influenced many more mainstream musicians. Some of the most commonly incorporated types of folk music include rai, samba, flamenco, tango, qawwali, highlife and raga.
So we're out to create radio programming which will bring world sounds to an essentially English speaking audience, in a form which will encourage them to listen, inspire and encourage them.
