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Music Machine

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

The 1990s
Tommy Pearson discusses the advent of world music in the nineties with Simon Broughton and Charlie Gillett. The CD revolution has seen music flooding in from all corners of the globe. World music is now big business; the sound is influencing music as diverse as dance music and jazz, classical and film music; and it is part of the National
Curriculum. Given that there are so many new sounds from so many different cultures, is it not time to call it something else?

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Unknown:
Tommy Pearson
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Simon Broughton
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Charlie Gillett.
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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