WORLD MUSIC: Specials
Category: World Music
Find out what world music performers have to say about their art, and watch exclusive impromptu live performances on this World Music Specials page.

Imagine
Category: World Music
Yoko Ono Lennon has given Amnesty International a generous gift: the rights to use her late husband's song "Imagine" in a campaign for human rights. Link TV present's Amnesty International's call for action.

World Music Videos Extra
Category: World Music
After "Blind Shaft"'s dark tale of greed, settle back for a sampling of videos about our relationship to money, featuring Aterciopelados, Control Machine, Kou Chou Ching and others.

Youssou N'Dour and the Grand Orchestre du Caire at the Roll Back Malaria Concert
Category: World Music
Senegalese superstar Youssou N'our performs alongside the Grand Orchestre du Caire at the Africa Live: The Roll Back Malaria Campaign.

FELA: Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
Category: World Music
He created the genre of Afrobeat, and became the symbol of musical protest; the late great Fela Kuti was a powerhouse of creativity and energy who challenged social, musical and political boundaries.

Vusi Mahlasela and Friends - A Benefit for 46664 the Nelson Mandela Campaign
Category: World Music
This special benefit concert was filmed at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and features the music of Vusi Mahlasela and special guests.

Mosuo Song Journey
Category: World Music
In this international musical documentary, Chinese filmmaker Diedie Weng, American scholar Carol Bliss and Mosuo writer Lamu Gatusa travel to remote Southwest China to collect traditional Mosuo folk songs.

Praying and Playing: Omar Faruk Tekbilek
Category: World Music
Banning Eyre interviews Omar Faruk Tekbilek who talks about the relationship between musical and spiritual practice. He sings a Sufi song, accompanying himself on the baglama, and demonstrates the ney (flute) and the ear-splitting zurna.

Tinariwen: Desert Blues
Category: World Music
This profile explores the political and historical influences on the music of Tinariwen, a band made up of nomadic Tuareg. Incorporating the sinuous sound of the electric guitar with their traditional loping rhythms, they create what has been dubbed "Desert Blues".

Saz
Category: World Music
This provocative documentary goes behind the ghetto walls of Ramlah in Israel to look at a year in the life of budding Palestinian hip-hop star Sameh Zakout, a.k.a. Saz, whose belief in peace can be at odds with those closest to him.

Fangafrika
Category: World Music
A stylized look at a music festival in Ouaga, in Burkina Faso, where Africa's best and brightest rappers gather using hip hop to tackle the serious issues facing Africans everywhere.

Kathaumixw: A Thousand Voices, A Single Passion
Category: World Music
This musical documentary features special performances from the Choral Kathaumixw Festival, held every year in the British Columbian town of Powell River.

Latcho Drom (Safe Journey)
Category: World Music
A collage of magnificent images and exceptional music on the subject of Gypsies, or Roma, this film may be credited in ushering an entire resurgence of interest in Gypsy music.

Khaled and Rachid Taha
Category: World Music
Raï music is the ultimate pop crossover music of the Arabic world. This documentary focuses on two stars of Raï who couldn't be more different; Khaled the entertainer, and Rashid Taha, the rockin' "bad boy."

Karoo Kitaar Blues
Category: World Music
South African songwriter David Kramer and slide guitarist Hannes Coetzee journey into remote regions of South Africa on their quest to find musicians who play an almost forgotten folk music.