Lo si sapeva in lavorazione da anni, e proprio all'ultimo ha subìto qualche ritardo ma ora il libro - monumentale - è pronto e Joe Boyd lo sta presentando in Regno Unito e Stati Uniti con una fitta serie di appuntamenti pubblici: And the Roots of Rhythm Remain-A Journey through Global Music, fresco di stampa per Faber & Faber e tra poco disponibile anche come audiolibro con la voce dell'autore in persona.
Richard Williams era alla presentazione londinese qualche giorno fa, e ne scrive in The Blue Moment aggiungendo proprie considerazioni: "And the Roots of Rhythm Remain is an 850-page examination of the forms of popular music with which Joe Boyd has engaged in Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Argentina, Bulgaria, Senegal, Albania and elsewhere during his six decades as a successful record producer and enlightened facilitator of musical projects. For many years now it’s been rumoured that Boyd was writing a history of “world music”, a tale perhaps beginning with his presence at the famous meeting at a London pub in 1987 during which that rubric was invented, with the best of intentions and outcomes, as a way of persuading open-minded listeners to pay as much attention to music from other cultures as they did to their own western idioms. The result is much more interesting than a simple history; its eventual subtitle, A Journey through Global Music, conveys a much more accurate impression of what Boyd has taken on."
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