The Boston Globe, March 27th, 1992
It might be soukous from Zaire or mbalax from Senegal, bachata from the Dominican Republic or qawwali from Pakistan but the pop music industry's one-size-fits-all packaging seems intent on blurring maps and history. On the dance floor only the beat counts. Yet for the indigenous artists, every aesthetic choice is often charged with political and social meaning. The Cambridge-based Haitian band Batwel Rada is one of the most promising groups to emerge in the world music scene in the area. They play the Middle East Restaurant April 4. Batwel Rada is part of a new generation of Haitian groups, in...
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