Everyone knows English is the lingua franca of pop music. By the time Verdi had made opera into folk music and vice-versa, his funeral drew the largest crowd ever assembled in Italy. Shakira and the Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias were an avant garde of pop music from outside the Anglo weave seeping into and fraying it. Simon Broughton, founder and editor of world music magazine Songlines, thinks “our musical world is becoming global. Of course, the term ‘world music’ is increasingly redundant as young people in a globalised world are picking and mixing and tuning into sounds from everywhere.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2019 13:52 UTC