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Title The rough guide to world music. Vol. 1, Africa & Middle East / compiled and edited by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham and Jon Lusk ; with Duncan Clark.

Imprint London : Rough Guides, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  780.9 ROU    Check Shelf
Edition 3rd ed.
Description xvi, 656 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Series Rough guides
Music rough guide.
Note "Volume 1 of 3."
Bibliography Includes discographies and index.
Contents Africa. Algeria. Rai ; Kabylia -- Angola -- Benin & Togo -- Botswana -- Burkina Faso -- Cameroon -- Cape Verde -- Congo -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Equatorial Guinea -- Eritrea -- Ethiopia -- Gabon -- Ghana -- Guinea -- Guinea-Bissau -- Indian Ocean -- Kenya -- Liberia -- Libya -- Madagascar -- Malawi -- Mali -- Mauritania & western Sahara -- Morocco -- Mozambique -- Namibia -- Niger & Touareg -- Nigeria -- Pygmy music -- Rwanda & Burundi -- São Tomé & Príncipe -- Senegal & The Gambia -- Sierra Leone -- South Africa. Popular music ; Jazz ; Gospel -- Southern Africa. Archives -- Sudan -- Tanzania & Kenya. Taarab -- Tanzania. Popular music -- Uganda -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe.
Middle East. Arab world/Egypt. Classical -- Arabesque -- Armenia -- Azerbaijan -- Egypt. Popular/Street music -- Georgia -- The Gulf -- Iran -- Iraq -- Israel -- Jewish music. Sephardic -- Jordan & Bedouin music -- Kurdish music -- Lebanon -- Palestinian music -- Syria -- Turkey.
Summary Full coverage of everything from Congolese soukous to Greek rembetika, and biographies of artists from Thomas Mapfumo to Cheb Khaled to the Afro Celt Sound System. Features include: More than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music. Extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best CDs. Photos and album cover illustrations gathered from contemporary and archive sources. The guide includes a directory of World Music labels and specialist stores around the world and on the Internet.
Subject World music -- History and criticism.
World music -- Bio-bibliography.
World music -- Discography.
Music -- Africa.
World music -- Middle East.
Music (OCoLC)fst01030269
World music. (OCoLC)fst01181375
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
Genre/Form Bio-bibliography. (OCoLC)fst01423685
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Discographies. (OCoLC)fst01423883
Added Author Broughton, Simon.
Ellingham, Mark.
Lusk, Jon.
Clark, Duncan (Duncan Antony)
Added Title World music
ISBN 9781843535515
1843535513
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