Global Rhythm
Encyclopedia
Global Rhythm is a New York
-based monthly music and lifestyle magazine featuring coverage of world music
, film, cuisine and travel. It is published monthly and circulated across North America, Europe and hundreds of other locations worldwide.
Ever since its humble beginnings in 1992 in the basement of a church in Cambridge, Massachusetts
, Global Rhythm has provided its readership with information on the arts traditions of the world's many cultures. Each issue contains music and film reviews and articles on foreign film, international travel and ethnic cuisine. A typical issue may feature articles on subjects as varied as Uganda's Jewish community
, the reggae
musician Burning Spear
, Maya cuisine, Scandinavia
's blossoming music scene and Bollywood
's latest films.
Each issue is accompanied by Global Rhythm on Disc, a full-length music compilation CD allowing subscribers to hear some of the music they are reading about. Recent musicians who have appeared on the sampler include Senegalese Afro-pop
star Baaba Maal
, Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club
, India's Susheela Raman
, Corsica's I Muvrini
, Brazil's Gilberto Gil
, Ireland's Chieftains
and Cape Verde's Cesária Évora
.
Global Rhythm had its beginnings as Rhythm Music Monthly, (RMM) a Boston-area free-distribution journal published by Kyle Russell, a local music promoter, starting in 1992. The first issues were essentially compendia
of upcoming concerts with feature interviews of local musicians and artists. Over the next two years a number of other individuals joined the effort, including Warren Senders, who edited the magazine until the end of 1993 (under the pseudonym Warne Russell), Raphael Brickman (graphic design), Vijaya Sundaram, Tomi Osuna, Leigh Maher, Jonathan Shulman, David Rumpler and many others. Alecia J. Cohen, who had been with RMM from the beginning as an unpaid assistant to Kyle Russell, began assuming more responsibilities. After Senders left to continue study in India in 1993, the editorship passed to Joel Segel, then to Larry Blumenfeld. Eventually Cohen took over as publisher in the mid-1990s, and remained in this position until late 2005, when the company was then acquired by Zenbu Media
and Steve Bernstein was named Publisher, with Cohen continuing on as Associate Publisher. The Editor in Chief since 2002 has been Jeff Tamarkin
.
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
-based monthly music and lifestyle magazine featuring coverage of world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
, film, cuisine and travel. It is published monthly and circulated across North America, Europe and hundreds of other locations worldwide.
Ever since its humble beginnings in 1992 in the basement of a church in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
, Global Rhythm has provided its readership with information on the arts traditions of the world's many cultures. Each issue contains music and film reviews and articles on foreign film, international travel and ethnic cuisine. A typical issue may feature articles on subjects as varied as Uganda's Jewish community
History of the Jews in Uganda
The history of the Jews in Uganda is connected to some internal tribes who claim Jewish ancestry, such as the Abayudaya, down to the twentieth century when Uganda under British control was offered to the Jews of the world as a "Jewish homeland" under the British Uganda Programme known as the...
, the reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
musician Burning Spear
Burning Spear
Winston Rodney, OD , also known as Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages.-History:...
, Maya cuisine, Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
's blossoming music scene and Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
's latest films.
Each issue is accompanied by Global Rhythm on Disc, a full-length music compilation CD allowing subscribers to hear some of the music they are reading about. Recent musicians who have appeared on the sampler include Senegalese Afro-pop
African popular music
African popular music, like African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa zouk, and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions...
star Baaba Maal
Baaba Maal
Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. In addition to acoustic guitar, he also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary.-Biography:Born 12 November 1953...
, Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s...
, India's Susheela Raman
Susheela Raman
Susheela Raman is an acclaimed British Tamil musician. Raman has released five albums since 2001. Her debut album Salt Rain was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2001.-Early years:...
, Corsica's I Muvrini
I Muvrini
I Muvrini is a Corsican folk music group who sing traditional Corsican music in their native Corsican language.-History:The group was formed in the early 1980s by the brothers Jean-François Bernardini and Alain Bernardini who were born in the village of Tagliu-Isulacciu in the north of Corsica...
, Brazil's Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...
, Ireland's Chieftains
The Chieftains
The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...
and Cape Verde's Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...
.
Global Rhythm had its beginnings as Rhythm Music Monthly, (RMM) a Boston-area free-distribution journal published by Kyle Russell, a local music promoter, starting in 1992. The first issues were essentially compendia
Compendium
A compendium is a concise, yet comprehensive compilation of a body of knowledge. A compendium may summarize a larger work. In most cases the body of knowledge will concern some delimited field of human interest or endeavour , while a "universal" encyclopedia can be referred to as a compendium of...
of upcoming concerts with feature interviews of local musicians and artists. Over the next two years a number of other individuals joined the effort, including Warren Senders, who edited the magazine until the end of 1993 (under the pseudonym Warne Russell), Raphael Brickman (graphic design), Vijaya Sundaram, Tomi Osuna, Leigh Maher, Jonathan Shulman, David Rumpler and many others. Alecia J. Cohen, who had been with RMM from the beginning as an unpaid assistant to Kyle Russell, began assuming more responsibilities. After Senders left to continue study in India in 1993, the editorship passed to Joel Segel, then to Larry Blumenfeld. Eventually Cohen took over as publisher in the mid-1990s, and remained in this position until late 2005, when the company was then acquired by Zenbu Media
Zenbu Media
Zenbu Media is a media company located in New York City, United States and founded by Steve Bernstein. While the word zenbu means "everything" in Japanese the company is focused on the music industry, sporting the slogan "we live for music."- Print :...
and Steve Bernstein was named Publisher, with Cohen continuing on as Associate Publisher. The Editor in Chief since 2002 has been Jeff Tamarkin
Jeff Tamarkin
Jeff Tamarkin is an American editor, author and historian specializing in music and popular culture.-Career:For 15 years Tamarkin was editor of Goldmine, a magazine for record and CD collectors. Prior to that, he served as the first editor of CMJ and as editor of Relix...
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