ethnic music

In the mid-1970s, at what is now Tokyo University of the Arts, he received a master’s degree in music composition but also became intensely devoted to the study of electronic and ethnic music.

Pearl believed part of the club’s appeal was that it showcased a variety of regional and ethnic music, from gospel to jazz, Jewish to Latino, and presented it with respect.

But even in Europe, opera, traditional theater, painting, and so on are losing any universally acknowledged claim to being culturally superior to film, popular or ethnic music, and television.

It’s a meditation on Greek mythology, inspired by ancient Hellenic dances, and Vangelis wrote a new score rooted in various strains of ethnic music.

On the other were self-described “postmodern” composers, who experimented with minimalism and found common ground with rock, jazz and ethnic music.