Here's a story from the Canadian globeandmail.com about world music. Seems Europe is the place to look for marketing and performing your 'world' music.
"World music is huge in Europe, but in B.C. this "umbrella" genre --which covers everything
from Mongolian herding calls to Mexican reggae-- remains marginalized. It's deemed too
strange or exotic, and of little commercial appeal. Even such superstars as Salif Keita or
Youssou N'Dour are rarely heard on the airwaves or in record stores. But thanks to people like
Francis Xavier, things are changing."
Read on here
[Resource http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060721.MISSION21V/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Music/]
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