ABSTRACT
The various forms of popular music are the results of profound technological and social modernization processes starting from North America and Europe which have cultural constellations worldwide. There are always various participants with different interests in the music process who are responsible for the exchange of cultural features. Styles like world music, tribal dance or sample beats consisting of indigenous sound patterns seem to be a suitable area for investigations which deal with musical globalization or localization. The 'modernization' of the didjeridoo, one of the oldest instruments in the world, is probably the most conspicuous phenomena of its kind. Every person–whether a musician, performer, journalist, promoter, listener or alternative therapist, to give some examples–has a different motivation for their interest in the didjeridoo. In all probability the didjeridoo sound which introduces the track is a digital sample that can be used and tuned electronically.
