Walking Away With the Music - ACE445.3

Brooman agrees that the festival is part of a white consumer society. Goods on market stalls. Album covers. Kalpana Wilson, South Asian Solidarity Group, believes that the politics has been taken out of world music in order to make it marketable. Painting of black soldier and white officers. Kershaw talks of himself and others as "conspirators". Owusu says that Europe has a "power of patronage" used by promoters to their own advantage. A member of Udichee, Bangladesh, says they will always perform at events organised by WOMAD. Explaining the lyrics of a song; performing. He talks about the difference in audience behaviour in Bangladesh and England. Brooman talking about his role as organiser, to bring together musicians and audience. Owusu describing the variety of people in the audience, promoters, broadcasters, sound archivists, etc., a network that excludes any black participation but which has power over all the product. Kershaw explains that there’s "a lot of scheming" in getting particular recordings into the public consciousness. Ayub Ogada, Kenya, playing a nyatiti (Luo lyre), being recorded by Kershaw. Owusu’s VO talking about the experience the organisers have of marketing music. He says that music is "communally owned" in African countries and there’s little conception of the idea of copyright.