Drummer Mickey Hart Recalls 30 Years of “World Music”
“There’s no such thing as world music.” That’s what drummer Mickey Hart told us when we asked him about the term “world music,” which was coined 30 years ago.
This year, we’re touching base with artists who were attracted to global sounds or who became champions of those sounds and to reflect on what this thing, world music, is. Mickey Hart, the drummer for the Grateful Dead, is one musician who’s been at that global cutting edge practically since the beginning.
Read more and listen to the full radio interview at PRI.org.
