By Susan Kepecs

It doesn’t get any better than the Wisconsin Union Theater’s Madison World Music Festival (Sep. 13-15), which kicks off the fall season at the Memorial Union Terrace and the Union Theater. It’s an annual, free, all-out celebration of cultural resistance to Coca-Colonized pop-rock homogeneity. This year’s zippy lineup includes both traditionalists who refuse to give in and pioneers who revamp the family folklore with 21^st century world influences. Here are some highlights.

Puerto Plata (Sept. 14, Terrace, 7:45 p.m.), 84, revives immortal son and meringue from the Trujillo-era Dominican Republic.