This is the fifth annual survey in these pages of recent world-music releases, and musical boundaries have grown more amorphous than ever.
M.anifest, winner of the Best Rapper award at the 2013 Ghana Music Awards, is a musical boundary-crosser who hones his art through collaboration, whether with Tony Allen, the legendary Afrobeat drummer, keyboard alchemist Kwame Yeboah of Alexander O'Neal and Osibisa fame, or with the now defunct Camp Mulla, the enfants terribles of Kenyan hip-hop.
Rock does not so much influence other musics as colonize them, blurring musical boundaries.
Writing for the BBC, Chris Jones summed up the album by saying that it would not break any musical boundaries, but listeners will find music that was "intriguingly and, sometimes, maddeningly infectious".
The succession of utterly distinctive works Reich has composed in the last half century includes some of the most remarkable music of our time, their influence continues to cross continents and almost all musical boundaries.
His focus was inner human territory, not outer musical boundaries.
It's a blueprint that has crossed musical boundaries.
A quintet, led by John McDaniel on piano, conjures that effect in arrangements that blur musical boundaries.
But musicians, marketers and the Internet have made musical boundaries far more porous over the last decade.
Ultimately, Mr. Hanna said, his goal was the obliteration of musical boundaries.
My musical boundaries are supposed to retract to the space between soft rock and smooth jazz.
