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World Orchestra Tour Commemorates War and Peace


If only political interests could be so harmonized.   More »

Colombian Singer Juanes Responds to Critics In Advance of Cuban Concert

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"I'm fed up with us asking one another whether we're Muslim, gay, Cuban, or Venezuelan."  More »

Michael Jackson Dead at 50; World Mourns

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From New York to Nairobi, the world remembers Michael Jackson.   More »

“Daggering” in Jamaica: A Dance Craze Gone Too Far?

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The spiraling popularity of "daggering" -- a "lewd" dance style with accompanying, explicitly-lyric'd dancehall tunes -- has led the Jamaican governme  More »

Bhutto’s Daughter Raps About Her Mother’s Death


Just over a year after the assassination that made headlines worldwide, the daughter of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has released a   More »

40 Years Later: The Vatican Gives John Lennon a Chance


Happy birthday, White Album. It’s been 40 years since the iconic Beatles album was released — and hey, in honor of the milestone the Vati  More »

Rest in Peace, “Mama Africa”


South African singer Miriam Makeba died this week at age 76. Nicknamed Mama Africa, Makeba was known throughout the world not only for her singing bu  More »

State Department Gets Tech-Savvy

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The travel blogosphere has been aflutter with all sorts of news about Twitter. First, blogger Pam over at Nerds Eye View shared her story about how   More »

Rapper Common On Hip Hop’s Political Influence, Respecting Differences, And Why He Supports Barack Obama


Like its artists, America’s musicians, actors and other celebrities have been getting involved in this campaign to an unprecedented degree. Hip  More »

Rock-n-Roll Revolution (with emphasis on “Roll”)

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“Our way of life,” write the Ginger Ninjas, “threatens our way of life.” For that reason, they started the Pleasant Revoluti  More »

Cure for Olympics Withdrawal: The Human Race


Cure for Olympics withdrawal  More »

So You Think You’re Well-Traveled?

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Matador member Lola Akinmade–herself a carrier of a well-inked passport leafed with multiple visas–sent in a tip about the website Most   More »

Jane Dark on World Music

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When music critic Jane Dark named M.I.A.’s Kala his 2007 album of the year, he noted that it earned the distinction in part because “it is  More »

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