Old Neighbors, New Friends Listening Post 85. Papua New Guinea may seem remote, but everyone eventually finds it. Prior to independence in 1975, it was colonized or invaded by Germany, Great Britain, Japan and neighboring Australia. Few among the intruders got to...
World Listening Post publishes album reviews that showcase music from around the globe. The site encompasses a wide range of contemporary and traditional music styles and encourages readers and listeners to go beyond their own comfort zones by crossing national and linguistic frontiers. You can access reviews, starting with the most recent, by scrolling down the left-hand column of this page; with the index (alphabetical by artist); or by country and language in the right-hand column.
Gawurra: Ratja Yaliyali
No Degrees of Separation Listening Post 74. Just as the idea of human flight long predated the Wright Brothers (think da Vinci’s fifteenth-century airplane designs), so did the notion of a World Wide Web emerge millennia before the Internet. According to indigenous...