Noise of the World Non-Western Musicians in Their Own Words

Noise of the World captures the world music scene through the eyes of the musicians who create it, all in their own words. Drawn from original interviews conducted over the last 20 years—with artists who left a massive musical legacy, like Nigeria’s Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and artists that continue to make crucial recordings, like Winston "Burning Spear" Rodney—it will feature artists whose music has become part of the "mainstream," like the Gipsy Kings and Gloria Estefan and artists like Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, who managed to cross over and garner that rarest of things, a pop hit, while retaining their roots, talking about making music in their native country and in exile. There is as much dissent between the artistic and holistic outlooks of Nigerian artists like Sunny Ade and Fela Anikulapo Kuti as there is between a religious rock band and a satanic metal band. These open and honest self-portraits will give music fans a greater appreciation of what is behind these sounds and the suffering these artists have endured and triumphs they have enjoyed.

Hank Bordowitz he has worked as a radio and recording studio engineer, producer, and musician, record retailer and distributor, recording artist, trade journalist, record promotion, publicity, and A&R consultant, radio programmer, director at an early online music company, and editor of many music publications. He has taught courses in music and the music business at Ramapo College of the State of New Jersey, Baruch College of the City University of New York, Bergen Community College, and Colorado State University, and headed the Music Business Program at Western Illinois University.

Bordowitz has appeared on panels at numerous music and entertainment industry events, contributed to the CBS Morning Show and VH-1 Music Watch on TV, a variety of radio shows and appeared on the MSG Network Series "MSG 50." He is also the author of nine critically acclaimed books about music and the music business.