Posted
on June 21, 2015
Today,
the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, music is celebrated as the universal language!
Amateur
and professional musicians are encouraged to perform in the streets.
Also, there are free concerts, music festivals, improv sessions,
blues jams, live performances and music walks, held in more than 700
cities in more than 100 countries around the world.
World
Music Day started in France in 1982 – but it was the brainchild on
an American musician, Joel Cohen, who lived in France at the time.
“World
Music” is a term for traditional music from around the world, and
neotraditional music (new music inspired by traditional forms), and
music that mingles more than one cultural tradition. American Paul
Simon utilizing African Mbaqanga music is a good example of the
latter.
But
World Music Day isn't just about “World Music”; it's also about
jazz and reggae, hip hop and pop, rock and classical, country and
electronic, folk and Latin, R&B and blues, soul and rap, gospel
and metal, march and disco, musical theatre and easy listening.
- Check out this Evolution of Music video. (This video is very heavy on the last half century! Can you find a more balanced one?)
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