recording Volare. The importance of this song is found not only in the fact that it is an original Italian song, but that it is recorded incorporating both English and Italian into the song at the same time. Frank Sinatra also tried this same approach in 1967. He recorded an album of songs done by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobin.As noted by the Music Council of Australia (MCA) it is globalization that has an affect on music. They state: 80% of the worlds trade in music happens under four giant transnational recording companies whose fortunes at present depend on global marketing of Anglo-American pop music. We can buy music of virtually any culture by ordering from massive catalogues from internet music suppliers, locations unknown. Furthermore, the whole deal can take place on the internet: the search, the ordering, the payment and the delivery. We neednt leave the room. Music, more than almost any other commodity, has lent itself to globalization. And globalization is upon it....
