{"id":318,"date":"2010-05-20T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/05\/worlds_music_in_nyc_parks\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:32:51","slug":"worlds_music_in_nyc_parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/05\/worlds_music_in_nyc_parks.html","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s music in NYC parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean music is big &#8212; and free &#8212; in the city&#8217;s parks this summer; my <a href=\"http:\/\/cityarts.info\/2010\/05\/19\/the-world%E2%80%99s-music-in-our-parks\/\">City Arts column&nbsp;<\/a>details some of the best shows. There&#8217;s also music from Africa, Turkey, Syria, Brazil &#8212; almost everywhere, <i>as well as<\/i> the good ol&#8217; USA. I&#8217;m off to teach my NYU class about &#8220;World Music,&#8221; a nebulous concept, so can&#8217;t report all the dates and places here\/now, but check out calendars for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summerstage.org\/\">Summerstage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivertorivernyc.com\/events\/\">River-to-River Festival<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bricartsmedia.org\/events\/performing-arts\">Celebrate Brooklyn<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bam.org\/view.aspx?pid=283\">BAM Rhythm &amp; Blues Festival <\/a>at Brooklyn&#8217;s Metrotech Center, and any of the other presenters mentioned in the piece. Global sounds are, by definition, everywhere.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email <\/a>  |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by  RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean music is big &#8212; and free &#8212; in the city&#8217;s parks this summer; my City Arts column&nbsp;details some of the best shows. There&#8217;s also music from Africa, Turkey, Syria, Brazil &#8212; almost everywhere, as well as the good ol&#8217; USA. I&#8217;m off to teach my NYU class about &#8220;World Music,&#8221; a nebulous concept, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[826,823,825,242,827,363,824],"class_list":{"0":"post-318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-bam-rhythm-and-blues-festival","8":"tag-caribbean-music","9":"tag-celebrate-brooklym","10":"tag-city-arts","11":"tag-metrotech-center","12":"tag-river-to-river-festival","13":"tag-summerstage","14":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-58","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":216,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/06\/in_lieu_of_jvc_jazz_festivals.html","url_meta":{"origin":318,"position":0},"title":"In lieu of JVC Jazz festivals","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"June 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you miss the \"festivity\" of June jazz concerts in major Manhattan venues -- or did you find ways of coping without them? 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