Bruce Wallace

The Swiss trio Mama Rosin is influenced by bands like The Clash and the Velvet Underground, but their real love is music from Louisiana: Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco. Reporter Bruce Wallace met up with them on their first visit to Louisiana.

Two generations of bachata musicians gathered to pay homage to the classic style of music from the Dominican Republic’s rural north. Bruce Wallace went to a performance in New York City.

Lebanese composer and oud player Marcel Khalifé tours the US paying homage to his friend, the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

Leslie T. Chang spent two years interviewing workers for her book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China Chang thinks Westerns who feel guilty about buying the electronics these Chinese workers assemble are missing the point.

M.A.K.U is a young band out of the thriving Colombian music scene across New York’s East River in Queens.