Corridos Tumbados, a form of regional Mexican music, exploded in popularity in 2023. At the forefront of this phenomenon was Peso Pluma, who rose to global fame after his feature on Eslabon Armado’s “Ella Baila Sola,” which topped the Billboard Global 200 and was Rolling Stone’s song of the year.[Read More…]
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What’s wrong with world music?
On what grounds do we describe music that breaks with Western traditions? Does the simple label “world music” suffice? Unsurprisingly, this term was not popularized by so-called world musicians. Rather, like much of the language we use to describe music, it was the creation of profit-minded record label executives. In[Read More…]
