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| World Playground | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Putumayo World Music
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
Buy New: $9.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 3791
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 154
UPC: 790248015422
EAN: 0790248015422
ASIN: B00000JT4P
Release Date: October 12, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Fatou Yo | | • | La Mariposa | | • | Three Little Birds - Cedella Marley Booker & Taj Mahal (Jamaica) | | • | Nyanpi Matilda | | • | Home by Barna | | • | Mardi Gras Mambo - | | • | Tik Tik Tak | | • | Bongo Bong | | • | Boom Boom Tarara - Lemvo, Ricardo | | • | Bon Jour Pra Voce | | • | Zichronot M'Africa | | • | Just Keep Goin' On |
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Product Description
Putumayo Kids is committed to introducing children to other cultures through fun, upbeat world and folk music. These CD's feature songs with child-friendly lyrics and liner notes that educate and inspire cultural curiosity. This lively collection of global songs takes children and parents on a musical journey to faraway places where they can be introduced to other people and places around the world. A trip to the World Playground makes exploring other cultures a adventure for music fans of all ages! Featured artists include Manu Chao, Taj Mahal, and Cedella Marley Booker.
Amazon.com
This anthology of children-related tracks originates from the globally conscious Putamayo Records catalog. Artists from Africa (Senegal's Toure Kunda, Congo's Ricardo Lemvo), Europe (France's Manu Chao), the Caribbean (Jamaica's Cedella Marley Booker), North America (Buckwheat Zydeco and Eric Bibb from the U.S.; Canada's Teresa Doyle), South America (Brazil's Nazare Pereira), and Australia (Trevor Adamson) offer tracks, and while the styles and moods vary, the album gels excellently. Even if the multicontinent angle strikes you as too catholic, it bears reiterating that this is a "playground" session, a collection that begins with a Senegalese in-line dance and continues through "Mardi Gras Mambo," a bongo-playing French monkey, and much more. And while the songs are playful, there's nothing in the way of tossed-off music. It's all first-rate, with the artists at the top of their games. --Andrew Bartlett
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| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 A wonderfully eclectic mix of music for children and parents September 14, 1999
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
What a wonderful mix of rhythms and styles, languages and tunes! My 15 month old loves to dance to Fatu Yo, the song from Senegal. It is a pleasure to find a children's album that isn't sacchrine or monotonous. It is a delight!
Excellent idea for Xmas gift for children October 28, 1999
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
I heard this CD on National Public Radio and it moved me to buy it as soon as I got home!
 Not Reccomended December 9, 1999
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
This album is what I call - mock kids music. Too often we try to make kids into little adults. This album is NOT full of kids music, but full of music some adults thought kids SHOULD like to hear (policically correct, multicultural, etc.). I have seen this in a number of the classical selections for kids as well. Someone says, Oh that sounds like a kid should like it. But it fails terrrible, as does this album.
Wonderful children's music that parents will enjoy June 8, 2000
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
If your kids love music, this is the CD for you. My kids love all kinds of music, and, although they are only 2 and 4, have gotten way past Raffi (thank goodness) and it is CDs like this one that have helped them get that way. My older daughter loves this CD so much, she brought it for show and tell so that her whole class could dance to it. This is a great introduction to all different kinds of music for your children. I discovered that my kids love Reggae from listening to this album. The best part about it is, I like listening to this stuff. It is definitely not "kids music" a la Raffi, Sesame Street, etc. The CD is clearly aimed at kids and has a colorfol booklet with all the lyrics that kids will enjoy looking at. I would probably give it 4 1/2 stars instead of 5 because there are one or two songs that are a little jarring, but it definitely deserves more than 4. Buy this CD and have fun with your kids, dancing to the music of the world.
Fun listening! March 22, 2000
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'm a preschool music teacher in the D.C. area, and I occasionally do in-store programs for area bookstores. One store asked me to put together a program using the Putomayo World Playground CD, since it had just been released. I had a hard time deciding what songs to feature, since my daughters (age 9 and 12) and I liked so many selections. Our favorites were Mardi Gras Mambo (which I used in preschool classes around Mardi Gras time, complete with shakers and masks!), and Boom Boom Tarara -- great rhythm for dancing and rhythm instruments. Actually, we also LOVED the slow version, in Aboriginese, of Waltzing Matilda -- we made up a dance, and our Junior Girl Scout troop used this music for an international program. Everyone loved it! The CD is packed with danceable music, and even babies and toddlers will respond to the exciting rhythms and melodies. Lots of fun, and not the same-old-thing for kids to listen to -- we LOVE World Playground!
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