Stories about Music from September, 2010
Cameroon: Classic Makossa Music Blog
Dibussi reviews Makossa Original, a blog “which profiles the major Makossa acts and albums from the 1970s and 1980s, spicing it all up with pictures of rare and long-forgotten album covers and mp3 downloads of some of the greatest Makossa oldies.”
Armenia-Azerbaijan: Backseat musical musings… and ethnic conflict
With the broadcast media heavily controlled in both Armenia and Azerbaijan there are few avenues left for independent journalists. Bloggers in both countries, however, react to a video posted online.
Sudan: Changing the voice of musicians in Southern Sudan
Learn about the Sudanese music group Coozos Clan: “Coozos Clan was first formed and born in the year 2002. It is a group made up of cousins hence the word (Cuzoos)in swahili representing Cousins.”
Kenya: Changing urban youth culture
Bunmi follows up on an earlier post about the youth culture flourishing in Nairobi. “A small group of young adults who are not part of the “larger impoverished population,” nor… part of the small political-economic elite… they articulate a cosmopolitanism with a particular Kenyan flavor…” he writes, linking to a...
Chile: Bands and Soloists on Twitter
Roberto Carreño has listed the Twitter accounts of several Chilean bands and soloists.
Vietnam: Pre-1975 music
Eric Burdette blogs about pre-1975 songs in Vietnam which he discovered through a Vietnamese music website. Eric thinks that young Vietnamese do not know the songs anymore because many records and record players were destroyed in 1975, the end of the Vietnam War.
Zimbabwe/South Africa: Mugabe in chicken to change song
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is the subject of a new music video, Chicken to change, by South African Afro-pop sensation group FRESHLYGROUND and the internet satirical show ZA NEWS.
Chile: Law Requires Radio Stations to Include Chilean Music in at Least 20% of Programming
Roberto Carreño Parra is critical [es] of a new law that requires the 1,200 radio stations associated with the Association of Radio Broadcasters of Chile (ARCHI) to include Chilean music in at least 20% of their programming.
