This week in our online class we focus on work songs that take us to the fields to farm, to construction site to build, and the mines to…mine. Here let’s take the chance to go to China, where more than a billion people are working hard every day, including both the Chinese carriage driver and the guy in this video singing a song about the Chinese carriage driver.
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The “country” in Mamer’s “alt-country” is China
Mamer is a Central Asian singer-songwriter at the heart of China’s “alt-country” scene….Hailing from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of Western China, Mamer fuses ancient Kazakh music with modern international folk, helping inspire the creation of a beautiful new genre of music — “Chinagrass.” This video touches on some of Mamer’s pensive work, though he and his band, IZ, also rock out. We’ll enjoy more Chinagrass when our South and Central Asian tour takes us to Western China.
