What would you include in your version of world and folk music history?

In a new seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Today they pick 50 key moments in world and folk music – but what did they miss?So this is where is gets really hard: boiling down more than a century's worth of music into 50 key moments – using terms that are themselves highly contested. The starting point, given the criteria, could only be to think of world and folk music as that which exists outside the western mainstream. Even so, t...

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