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Description: Nathaniel Rappole's ongoing documentary series exploring musical ecology.
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Having traveled to Kenya with a documentary film crew to create a feature length film in 2012, musician Nate Rappole is gearing up once again to take his project Street Muse on tour and this time he is heading to Thailand to take a closer look at the khaen , an instrument indigenous to the region. For Street Muse Thailand, he is raising support to further explore the nuances of musical ecology—the study of how local landscape and environment can influence people to make certain sounds. With one volume of th
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Street Muse Kenya is a feature length documentary focusing on the music cultures of Kenya. It is part travelogue, part cultural analysis, and part collaborative musical experiment. Over a six week period in 2012, musician Nate Rappole performed across Kenya, using music as a tool to connect to and inspire dialogue with the Kenyan musicians he met along the way. The responding musicians present a portrait of Kenya as a people struggling to manage tribal factionalism, urbanization and globalization, inequalit
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