Like a good gospel preacher, Americana musician Rhiannon Giddens becomes more and more impassioned when she talks about her efforts to promote the musical contributions of populations that have been overlooked, or, as she puts it, “disappeared.”
“There’s so much pushback,” Giddens, 42, said with a chuckle. “People who put Europe in the center of the universe, they’re very fragile. They’ll say, ‘You’re so smug, you’re stripping everything away from the Europeans.’ But Europe is merely part of a larger global culture.
“I’m not trying to strip anybody’s accomplishments from anyone,” she said. “I’m just asking, ‘Can we look at this a little more accurately?’ ”
Her latest album, “There Is No Other,” is a collaboration with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, with whom she’s on a U.S. tour that includes a stop at the Dakota.
ARTICLE BY: Randy Lewis (Los Angeles Times)
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