Sakamoto

 

                             Music in the Global Village

                                To Diana, who loves Japanese culture

In a recent broadcast of the Cambalache program, on Radio Nacional de España, heard by the author of this blog on the central Californian coast, there was an interesting, extensive talk about the growing globalization of our times, which includes music.

Far background of this globalizing phenomenon were the Roman, Persian, British and Spanish empires; but the effects of this have come to turn our Earth, the third planet from the Sun, into a completely interconnected community and in continuous communication: the "Global Village" as the Canadian Marshall McLuhan called it.

Of the connection between different and to a certain point opposed cultures, the performed broadcast in that program testified: a typical Japanese orchestra, called Sakamoto, specialized in Argentine tangos, offered the song Granada, by the Mexican Agustín Lara, who was inspired by that Spanish city from the Andalusia region, already so close to the African coast.

The most amazing thing: it was performed in perfect Spanish by a Japanese singer who does not speak this language ... and was wearing a kimono!

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