Last Friday was a bittersweet day, particularly for me, as well as for my colleagues in the English to Africa Service and other departments at the Voice of America: At age 91, Leo Sarkisian, founder of the radio program Music Time in Africa and pioneering African music collector, officially retired from the agency after what he called […]
VOA’s Veteran Music Man Leo Sarkisian Says Goodbye
Posted October 2nd, 2012 at 6:32 pm (UTC-5)
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In Pursuit of African Music CDs & Vinyl
Posted July 26th, 2012 at 5:02 pm (UTC-5)
The music business is really different today than a decade ago. CDs and cassettes and vinyl discs are all but relics of the past. Downloads from iTunes, amazon.com, cdbaby.com, reverbnation.com, and a host of other music sites are the natural way that American youth and young adults acquire their music. Most statistics on illegal downloading […]
Gifts from Listeners
Posted October 28th, 2009 at 8:35 pm (UTC-5)
After several long and time consuming posts, and while I am working on the next long one, I thought I’d squeeze in a brief post featuring some of the many wonderful recordings that our listeners have sent us over the years; this first batch includes a few of my favorites from West African listeners. The […]
Listeners and lost nuggets
Posted February 26th, 2009 at 9:19 pm (UTC-5)
I am just about to head out of town for a few weeks and I haven’t had the time to wrap up several features I have been working on. I had hoped in particular to post, before I left, a piece on Dahmane el Harrachi, one of the greats of Algerian music, most of whose […]
