Africa |
Les
Quatre Etoiles (Congo)
Tarika
Sammy (Hanitra's version) (Madagascar 1993--long article)
Youssou
N'Dour (Senegal 1994)
Salif Keita
(Mali 1994)
The Pan-African
Orchestra (Ghana)
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
obituary (Nigeria 1997)
Ricardo Lemvo
(Congo-Latin 1998)
Fantcha (Cape
Verde 1998)
Regis Gizavo
(Madagascar 1998)
Floxy Bee (Nigeria
1999)
Richard Bona
(Cameroon 1999)
Waldemar Bastos
(Angola 1999)
Ivo
Pires (Cape Verde instrument maker 2000)
Agusto Cego
(Cape Verde 2000)
John Storm Roberts (African record company 1989)
Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo (South Africa 1998, raw interview) |
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Andre Fritz Dossous (Haiti, playwright
1997)
The Nazarene
Silvertones (Barbados 1997)
Giancarlo Buscaglia
(Puerto Rico 1997)
Cubanismo
(Cuba 1997)
Pancho Quinto
(Cuba 1998)
Los Muñequitos
de Matanzas (Cuba 1998)
Juan de Marcos/Afro-Cuban
All-Stars (Cuba
Barbarito Torres
(Cuba 1999)
Toots
Hibbert (1999)
Bamboleo
(Cuba 2000)
Larry Harlow
(New York Salsa 2000)
Hermanas Ferrin
(Cuba 2000)
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Marisa
Monte (Brazil 1997)
Bale Folclorico
da Bahia (Brazil 1997)
Corrido piece
(Mexico-US 1998)
Tania Libertad
(Peru 1999)
Pery Ribeiro
(Brazil 1998)
Guillermo Gomez-Peña
(Mexico-US 2000)
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Europe |
Belle
Stewart and Family (Scotland 1985)
Martin Carthy
(England)
The Watersons
(England 1993)
La Musgana (Spain 1995)
French Canadian
Revels (1997)
Sophia Bilides
(Greece 1997)
Iva Bittova
(Czech Republic 1998)
Duquende (Spain
1999)
Allesandra Belloni
(Italy 1999)
Greek traditional
music (2000) |
North Africa and
the Middle East |
Nouri
Kouffi (Algeria 1996)
Bustan Abraham
(Israel 1994)
Marcel Khalife (Lebanon 1996)
Djivan Gasparyan (Armenia 1999)
Abdelli
(Algeria 2000) |
Asia |
Llamo Folk Opera (Tibet)
Pandit
Ajoy Chakrabarty (India 1997)
Peking Acrobats
(China 1998)
Cui Jian (China
1999)
Vishwa Mohan
Bhatt (India 1994 -- long article)
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Blues |
Jimmy Witherspoon (1987)
Gatemouth Brown (1994)
Paul Geremia
(written for Blueswire, 1994)
Jesse Fuller (written for Acoustic
Guitar in 1997)
Larry Johnson
(written for the Boston Globe, 1998)
Big Bill Broonzy (written for the
Boston Globe, 1999)
Charlie Patton (written
for Sing Out, 2002)
Leroy Carr (written
for the New York Times, 2004)
John Jackson (written for Sing Out! in 1994--long article
Rory Block (written for Acoustic Guitar in 1995--long article)
Dave van Ronk (written for Sing Out! in 1996--long article)
Respecting the Blues
Makers (for Living Blues, 2003)
Hip Hop and Blues
(for Living Blues, 2004) |
R&B, Rock, Soul, Jazz, Gospel, etc. |
The
Birmingham Sunlights (1993--long
article)
Bobby Hebb (1994)
Claude "Fiddler" Williams (1994)
The G-Clefs (1995)
The Fairfield
Four (1997)
Eartha Kitt (1997)
David Adams (1997)
Dale Hawkins (1997)
Eric Burdon (1997)
Joe Ely (written
for Acoustic Guitar in 1995)
Dan Hicks (written for Acoustic Guitar in 1996)
? and the Mysterians (1998)
Sam Phillips/Peter
Guralnick (2000)
Al Cocorochio (2000)
Ted Hawkins (written for Acoustic Guitar in 1994)
Buddy Miles (1999)
Wilson Pickett (1999)
Wild Magnolias (2000)
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Folk, Roots, Country, Gospel,
etc. |
Billy Joe Shaver (1994)
Perry Lederman Obituary (written for Sing Out! in 1995)
Preacher Jack (1995 and 2020)
Big Al Downing (1998)
Eric Von Schmidt (1996--long article)
The Glass Harmonica (1996--long article)
Jackie Washington/ Jack Landron (1997)
Buckwheat Zydeco/
Rosie Ledet (1997)
The Bad Livers
(1997)
Doc Watson
(1998)
Odetta (2000)
The Klezmatics
(2000) |
Books |
Blue:
The Murder of Jazz (1997)
The World Don't
Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Honeyboy Edwards (1997)
Le Ton Beau de
Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (1997)
Doo-dah!
Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture (1997)
The Cultural Front:
The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997)
In the Country
of Country: People and Places in American Music (1997)
Cash: The Autobiography
(1997)
Ballad of an American:
The Autobiography of Earl Robinson
The Basque History
of the World (1999)
Bruce Chatwin:
A Biography (2000)
Voodoo Science:
The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (2000)
Sexually Speaking:
Collected Sex Writings of Gore Vidal (1999)
Cold New World:
Growing Up in a Harder Country (1998)
Yesterday Will
Make You Cry, by Chester Himes (1998)
Lone Star Swing
(1998)
The Triumph of
Meanness: America's War Against Its Better Self (1997)
The Twilight
of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars
(1996)
A Second Mencken
Chrestomathy (1995)
Mr. Wilson's
Cabinet of Wonder: The Museum of Jurassic Technology (1995) |
Films
|
World
music films (2000)
Mexican Experimental
Cinema (2000)
Genghis Blues
interview (1999)
Genghis Blues
review (1999)
Music films
(1999)
The Films of
Paul Robeson (1998) |