Wayne Marshall on the Bottom-Up Revision of the World of Music
Description
"Public culture is being remade in the wake of User-Generated Content. The ever curious category of “world music” is a case study in how culture has been changed by the proliferation of music and video production software and the connective possibilities of the web. With these innovations, a multinational network of grassroots producers, DJs, and bloggers are able to renegotiate and redefine the term category.
In this talk Wayne Marshall — an ethnomusicologist, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, and DJ — discusses how the bottom-up revision of world music can be seen as a valuable development, though queasy connections with its earlier incarnation, also persist." (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/12/15/wayne-marshall-on-the-unstable-platforms-and-uneasy-peers-of-brave-new-world-music/)