KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ An Interview with John Storm Roberts
Analog Audio
Event Type
Interview and MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
AM.1972.08.17Program Length
64 minDates
1972-08-17 | broadcast| 1972-08-17 | created
Description
Britain's John Storm Roberts, formally a writer with the “East African Standard,” a newspaper in Kenya, talks about the influence of African music in the Western Hemisphere, and the Caribbean in particular. Musical examples of a most unusual nature serve to illustrate his dialogue with Charles Amirkhanian. Mr. Roberts is also the author of “Black Music of Two Worlds”, published in September of 1972 by Praeger, as well as several other books on world music. Mr. Roberts also ran the mail order business Original Music, which distributed world music books and records in the years before the Internet, when such materials where very hard to come by outside of large urban centers. Mr. Roberts died in November of 2009.Genres
World musicMusical Selections
Georgie Lyon [Jamaican work song] -- Mango walk [Jamaican dance song] -- Mummies [Dominican Republic drumming] -- Ya Lo Ve [Afro-Dominican drumming] -- Canto De Hacha [Dominican country merengue] -- Ay Lola Eh [Spanish influenced song] -- Josephine [Haitian merengue] -- [Kenyan guitar music] -- [Kirikiri music from the Congo]Subjects
World musicMusic -- Africa
Folk music -- Haiti
Folk music -- Dominican Republic
Folk music -- Jamaica
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Amirkhanian, CharlesRoberts, John Storm