2001 Interview with Thomas Humphrey, guitar builder, for the Classical Guitar Alive radio program, by Tony Morris

Thomas Humphrey interview excerpt

Classical Guitar Alive is a nonprofit arts organization that produces and distributes the Classical Guitar Alive public radio program. Nationally-distributed since 1997, the program currently airs on over 250 radio stations, and features interviews and classical music.  www.ClassicalGuitarAlive.org

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World music is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the world, including traditional music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition intermingle. World music's inclusive nature and elasticity as a musical category pose obstacles to a universal definition, but its ethic of interest in the culturally exotic is encapsulated in fRoots magazine's description of the genre as "local music from out there".[1] The term originated in the late 20th century[citation needed] as a marketing category and academic classification for non-Western traditional music. Globalization has facilitated the expansion of world music's audiences and scope. It has grown to include hybrid sub-genres such as world fusion, global fusion, ethnic fusion and world beat