Joe Strummer’s Radio Show “London Calling” on BBC, from 2001

i posted another session before

If that was no toe-tapper or no body-shaker,

boy, you need to see the undertaker.

Music breaks down barriers, makes the experiences and values of others accessible, offers a common ground upon which to learn about one another. Joe Strummer would have us believe that music can make the other less other, less alien, less a reified thing that can be feared, or despised, or exploited. The music of the show — Harry Belafonte, Ibrahim Ferrer, Andres Landeros, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Ernest Ranglin, Nina Simone and Baaba Maal, and more — served as a celebration of diversity, indigenous instruments and forms, political and spiritual liberation, and, most of all, the pleasures of music.