Global Music Starter
A selected list of those who perform, present, promote, release, DJ, and write about the Global Music scene. More to be added as more folks sign on! Please send to WOMEX friends, APAP/Globalfest, and everywhere this applies to
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@bryanvargas.bsky.social
@olivierconan.bsky.social
Musician, curator, producer, club owner, part time loser. Barbès - Barbès Records - Chicha Libre - Combo Daguerre - The Roots of Chicha - Opera de Lyon - Etc..
@postmambo.bsky.social
Immmersive music seminars involving travel, led by Ned Sublette. No website, DM for details. Reposts appreciated.
@yuzzyacostaem.bsky.social
H.M.I.C @ Eclectic Media #Latin #Music PR -punk rock road warrior culture vulture. championing Alt Latin music & art is my life #NYC is my home #art #film #food ❤️my pursuits IG @yuzzystardust www.eclecticmediapr.com
@musicnoborders.bsky.social
For curious music lovers We Want Music Without Borders giving voice to music from around the world often overlooked by MSM since 2012( FB focus on live shows) https://www.facebook.com/groups/wewantmusicwithoutborders/ gaildee.bsky.social #RESISTANCEMUSIC
@tommy505nm.bsky.social
Cross-cultural zealot, music renegade, social activist, rights defender, global punk.
@rootsworld.bsky.social
Writer, publisher, editor. Global music DJ and FM radio programmer. Jazz. Folk. RootsWorld. WPKN. Crank.
@electriccowbell.bsky.social
Electric Cowbell Productions. Multifaceted music production agency in Washington DC specializing in booking, live music production, artist management, recording & release management. All vinyl DJ as Crown Vic. Set painter & construction film & TV Local 487
@jazyjef.bsky.social
Currently writing ‘A Walk in the Free World: Other Music in Brazil’ • Sonny Rollins Bridge Project https://sonnyrollinsbridge.net/ • urban planner • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/arts/music/brazil-jazz-music.html?smid=url-share
@anniezaleski.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran’s ‘Rio.’ Other books: Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Pink, Christmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
@nightafternight.bsky.social
Proud papa. @bambrooklyn.bsky.social senior copywriter. New music on stage and on record: https://nightafternight.substack.com [he/him/his]
@anastasiat.bsky.social
Knight-Wallace Fellow at UMichigan 24-25. Culture correspondent at NPR, music critic at the New York Times. ah-nah-STAH-zee-ah tsee-OOL-kahs/Αναστασία Τσιούλκα(ς)/اناستازيا تسيولكاس
@anthroposound.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Music @ NYU Abu Dhabi. Writes on music & sound in Kenya. #Ethnomusicology #Anthropology. Author 'Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast' www.weslpress.org/9780819501066/sounds-of-other-shores
@boomdiwan.bsky.social
Musician, Applied Ethnomusicologist, Professor NYC-Q8-Abu Dhabi IG: boom.diwan
@annkpowers.bsky.social
I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL.
@jodyrosen.bsky.social
Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. http://www.jody-rosen.com
@sixdegreesofficial.bsky.social
An eclectic, San Francisco based, independent label that produces genre-bending recordings, with a decidedly "Global" perspective.
@wayneandwax.bsky.social
the non-Jamaican Wayne Marshall, musicologist at Berklee and MIT, farmer at Belmont Acres, amateur bassist, erstwhile DJ, reggaetonera hasta la tumba
@djripley.bsky.social
Scholar, teacher, DJ, radical, junglist. Former streetmedic, current assoc. prof. More at http://larisa-mann.com She/her. I wrote : RUDE CITIZENSHIP: copyright, Jamaican popular music & reverberations of colonial power https://tinyurl.com/RudeCBook
@vijayiyer.bsky.social
music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // latest albums: Defiant Life (ECM, 2025) Compassion (ECM 2024), Trouble (BMOP/sound 2024), Love in Exile (Verve 2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
@sonnysingh.bsky.social
Musician & social justice educator | New album SAGE WARRIOR out now | Trumpet & vocals for Red Baraat | he/him www.sonnysingh.com
@activecultures.bsky.social
Imposing his taste on friends & strangers since 19xx. Agitador Cultural. Globalizer. Arts Monger from Long Island & Brooklyn now in Abu Dhabi UAE IG @activecultures Also me (w/ others): @NYUADArtsCenter @globalFEST_NYC Representing no one but me
@bryanvargas.bsky.social
Guitarist to the NYC Global Music Superstars; College Professor; hopelessly Liberal; proudly Nerdy; Lover of Muppets, Comics, Bikes, Books, Music, & Movies; Native NYer 4life 🇵🇷 IG: @bkbv https://t.co/8lhCBwpXWZ