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A ‘Big day’ to celebrate

Michael Church selects recordings from the past and instruments to discover

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Muziekpublique 14 68:37 mins

Ethnographic recordings were once a thriving sector of the CD market. But they didn’t chime happily with the world-music boom, which required Third World musicians to adjust their style to European and American tastes. Based in Brussels, Muziekpublique is an organisation dedicated to promoting music from every part of the world, and in particular the music found in its

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