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Saturday, December 8, 2007 12:00 AM

What ever happened to Britpop?

"The Brit Box" evokes an era of pale, sensitive, eyelinered boys -- and the Anglophiles who loved them.
By Simon Reynolds

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  • Sunday, December 9, 2007 01:09 PM

    Re: 'World Music'

    Absolut Carnage, I think we're operating under very different conceptions of 'world music.' I'm talking about the genre of music that coheres around programming like NPR's World Cafe and all the Putamayo comps, not just any music made outside of England and America. This is what most people are thinking of when they use the term 'world music,' and it is almost uniformly garbage.

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