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Joe Boyd

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“Festival in Giro Castra they have this huge festival of musicians from all over Albania playing traditional styles, no electric guitar is just the old fashioned way.”
2025-01-22 · Conversations with Tyler · Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's how we met, actually, because I've always been fascinated by Albanian music. I'd never been there. And I went to some Lucy Duran, who's a character in the book, who's the woman who discovered, who publicized, promoted the Korra and produced those great Tumani Diabate records. She told me she was going to Albania to a party on the beach with traditional Albanian music. And I said, can I come? And that's how we met. We ended up producing a record of a great sort of assemblage of traditional musicians from southern Albania. But it's a great place. Albania is a lovely country. It's Alterna is a very livable city. And it's been a wonderful experience to spend a lot of time there and get to know the culture, get to know people. We go back every five years for sure that we go for the...”
2025-01-22 · Conversations with Tyler · Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My wife does work on environmental projects mostly in the Balkans, and so we have spent a lot of time in Albania, not in southern Albania, but in Tirana, and we have a little flat there. It's not very expensive. We get to keep it and we go to Albania now and then. She goes more often than I do. And for a time when one of her projects was based there, we spent a lot of time there.”
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“It obviously gets more and more difficult to be surprised, but I do get surprised you know, I hear wonderful things that I've never heard before. There's a I mentioned toward the end of the book, I mention there's a record label in Atlanta, Georgia called Dust to Digital. And they do reissues of archival recordings from all around the world. including America and They have an Instagram feed that they put out once or twice a month, I'm not sure how often. It's just fabulous, it's just sensational people send them clips of music, people real people playing real music from every corner of the world. And I hear astonishing things on that feed every month. It's just a delight, and all”
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“That it became a thing. There were concert series, there were review sections and newspapers. There were all kinds of things. And, you know, like anything that gets popular, you're going to have pushback in people who don't like it. But I would say that to people who complain about the term, are you complaining about the term but you like the idea of a bunch of wealthy Western audience buying tickets and giving essentially money to the great artists from cultures from far away? Or do you dislike that whole idea? Or do you just dislike the term world music? Which do you dislike? That would be my question to anyone complaining about it. And then we can have two different discussions about following that choice.”
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“Was a prime candidate to buy a Susanna Bacca record, a Peruvian singer on David Burns label, or a flamenco record, or a Scottish piping record. These customers We were more interested in what was going on outside the borders of Anglo American culture than what was inside those borders. And independent record labels just say, okay, let's put those records all together in a corner of the record store so people can find that stuff. And it turned into something that then had, you know, people, it was so successful. It was such a... Kind of startlingly successful marketing tactic”
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“My view, a response to a kind of vacuum or a sort of decline in the kind of music that many music players. Fans, music buffs, collectors, you know, had once loved about blues, about jazz, about folk music, and about rock. Was no longer quite so available within the Western culture, and people began looking and realizing that a lot of those same qualities were available in African music, Latin music. Eastern European music, and people began discovering what great music there was out there. And the term world music, I don't think it's such a bad term. I mean it's it was a term applied not to the music but To an audience in Western Northern Europe and North America that was looking for the same customer. Customer going into a record store, looking for a Nusrat Fata Ali Khan record.”
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“Well, I would try and change the question a little bit. I mean, I think the time that you're talking about in 1960s through the 90s was definitely a time when... You could go back to the 1930s, a time when urbanization happened in a lot of previously unurban countries. And when urbanization happens anywhere in the world. Mississippi Delta going to Chicago. The Canefields going to Havana from Countryside coming into Leopoldville, which became Kinshasa, the same thing happens. It's no different. This is not the so-called developing world, as it was once called, is no different from America or England or anywhere else. The same process happens. And so music became modernized when it became urbanized. And I would say that the so-called world music movement that began in the 80s, which was”
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“Well, I think Many places you have The invasion of technology. You have the invasion of the drum machine, you have the invasion of Know people being able to listen to anything from anywhere in the world. And so traditions all around the world have taken a hit. But, you know, they still exist. And I think, I mean, I haven't, I've been to South Africa a few times, but not for many, many years. And so I can't claim to be completely up to date on what's going on today in Zulu Hazulu Natao, culturally, but I've seen footage of classes in schools, in Durban, who sing fantastic Zulu harmonies every morning before they start classes. So I think the traditions seem Be alive, but I wouldn't claim Perfect knowledge of that.”
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“responded to the white invasion of their land quite differently than the Koza which is Nelson Mandela's ethnic background who kind of took to urban life pretty well and participated and liked democracy and liked the politics and you know the struggle was something that they wanted to kind of spread to all the different groups in South Africa whereas the Zulus like being a part they like being separate they liked holding on to their traditions and the government played on that and would give them weapons and give them special privileges and try and get the Zulus to support apartheid in return for having a privileged role within this imagined future of South Africa which of course didn't happen and the Zulus sort of reluctantly gone along with the rainbow Nation idea, but you know, it hasn't been easy.”
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“I mean, the difference is that the Zulus, you know, are very, you know, have a history of... Being very belligerent, being warlike, having an empire, having great kings like Shaka, and they always felt, you know, they defeated the British army at Isan Juana and massacred a whole battalion of British troops.”
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“Felt it by buying Ladiesmith Blackmore Baso records and Maklatini and the Mahotela Queen's records that they were somehow supporting Nelson Mandela, whereas in South Africa, Nelson Mandela's supporters felt that music represented the Zulus who were the enemy of the ANC, or at least the official Zulu hierarchy was the enemy of the ANC.”
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“I think a lot of people. In South Africa, considered, I mean, there are lots of. Different opinions about all kinds of music, but certainly. The youth in the ANC, who were supporting Nelson Mandel Think would probably have viewed the music that Paul Simon Collaborated musicians at Paul collaborated with in the style in which Graceland was performed. as both old fashioned. And trib Both were from that point of view Contrary to what they liked and what they were represented their struggle. So a lot of the controversy about Graceland was, oh, did Paul Simon break the boycott? You know, and in fact, in South Africa, the controversy about it was much different. It was because, I mean, and people felt by Ladies, you know, people in the northern hemisphere.”
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