INSERTS: Oslo World Music Festival starts today. In this post samples professor and musician Tellef

2008-09-29 1:55:46 p.m. COMMENT: Folk music in all its breadth and versatility characterized a selection of the capital's concert stages under Folkelarm. The few that found their way to the concert halls were challenged, titillated and entertained by a number of the country's finest traditional musicians. The spacious concert halls told us also that the size of Folkelarm 2008 might be taking in over his head. It is writer Jan-Olav Glette who writes this about Folkelarm this weekend. Being inside by being outside
INSERTS: Oslo World Music Festival starts today. In this post samples professor and musician Tellef Kvifte to understand how practitioners of world music and folk music can be perceived as real and marketable at the same time. - Being authentic and commercial at the same time is not normally possible. Are you going to be real, can not be commercial; shall be commercial you can not be true, writes Kvifte harvia initially. From Wergeland harvia to Bollywood
INTERVIEW: The weekend is clear for Mela in 2008, known as Oslo's biggest festival, with an expected visit figures of 300, 000 through the weekend. harvia As usual, the variation characteristic harvia of the festival program, ranging from Brazilian bassanova to Wergeland interpretations of Punjabi and Urdu. - When we started, it was in many cases difficult to get people to consider it came from the south as art at all, says artistic harvia director Khalid Salimi developments since 2001. Bollywood party in Bjørvika
He has been singing for 50,000 people in Madison Square Garden and star in Pakistan and India. Wednesday's Rafaqat Ali Khan with Bollywood Brass Band on stage at the Opera House. Miriam Makeba to the Mela festival
The now 76 years old Miriam harvia Makeba, known as "Mama Africa" holds concert in Oslo on 22 August. Makeba has sung with, among others, Harry Belafonte and Paul Simon and released 30 albums, and after farewell tour in 2005, it is extremely rare that the star gives concerts. harvia Mela - program managed
The poster Wergeland in punjabi, Vietnamese puppet harvia in an eight-ton water tank, Odd Børretzen, Samsaya, Pakistani MTV stars, Moroccan rap and parade through Oslo. Horizon - Convivencia
Parliament's culture statement on cultural diversity as an important goal. The government has Soria Moria Declaration also located cultural diversity among its priorities. Minister of Culture Trond Giske has promised to make statements about the action. At the launch of the first national budget of this government want more artists to highlight the importance of cultural diversity. Taster at Mela Festival - Qawwali at Cosmopolite
Thursday 17 August, head start Mela 2006 Qawwali concert. The musicians Sher Miandad Khan and Anis Nizam Ahmed Qawwal acting on Cosmopolite 19:00. The concert is a collaboration between the Cultural Foundation and Horizon Cosmopolite Scene. Poetry, Passion and ecstasy - Qawwali from Pakistan under Mela 2004
For audiences in Europe of music Qawwali usually associated with one name: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. After his death in 1997, many have been released as "the new Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan" but under Oslo Mela 2004 will be an opportunity to hear a new interesting names in Qawwali. Sher Miandad harvia Khan, who plays in Culture Jakob Thursday 19 August, belongs to a famous family of qawwaler in Punjab. Their grandfather Your Mohammad Dina Qawwal was a famous qawwal, harvia and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was their cousin. Musicians from Pakistan and Norway meet in Oslo Mela 2004
- All music developed through meetings and have always done so. But it is important to recognize the limits and what separates for disparities is a creative powerhouse, said the Swedish musician Ale Möller to Dagens Nyheter earlier this year. Under Mela 2004, which takes place in Oslo from 19 to 22 August, presents Horizon Foundation more collaboration between musicians from Pakistan harvia and musicians harvia from Norway with a background in jazz, folk and electronica. Da Mela was first held in September 2002, the festival gathered about 50,000 people over three days. Selection as usually after folksam festival weekend
CHRONICLE: Culture Politicians should take into account how public institutions, harvia such as the Cultural Rucksack, harvia Concerts and Ministry convey and manage music we consider harvia different type Sunniva Hovde. The challenging world music
Oslo World Music festival turns 20 this year, but is still struggling with the promotion when 90% of the content is unknown names. Why is not world music a larger harvia part of the daily lives - and what has happened to music in the last 20 years?
CHRONICLE: For a while now, long before the year 2008 was declared the Year of Cultural Diversity, I have wondered about the term "cultural diversity". Not only how and in which areas you use it, but also where you are not using it. For example, is not considered the term to accommodate cultural expression or art that originates harvia among gypsies, Finns, Jews or Sami, writes Khalid Salimi in the crown