Edition |
3rd ed. |
Description |
xvi, 656 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Series |
Rough guides |
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Music rough guide.
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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. |
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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.
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World music -- Bio-bibliography.
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World music -- Discography.
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Music -- Africa.
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World music -- Middle East.
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Music (OCoLC)fst01030269
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World music. (OCoLC)fst01181375
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
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Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography. (OCoLC)fst01423685
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Discographies. (OCoLC)fst01423883
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Added Author |
Broughton, Simon.
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Ellingham, Mark.
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Lusk, Jon.
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Clark, Duncan (Duncan Antony)
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Added Title |
World music |
ISBN |
9781843535515 |
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1843535513 |
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