World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and PacificSimon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet. |
Contents
heavenly dancers John Clewley | 20 |
the east is red and white Stephen Jones | 44 |
how to listen a routemap Robert Maycock and Ken Hunt | 63 |
sounds of the saints Ken Hunt | 79 |
everything is left behind | 94 |
meetings by the river Ken Hunt | 109 |
no risk no fun Colin Bass | 131 |
our life is precisely a song Rob Provine Okon Hwang and Andy Kershaw | 160 |
meu brasil brasileiro David Cleary | 332 |
no more solitudes Charles Foran | 350 |
el sonido dorado Kim Burton | 372 |
que rico baila yo Jan Fairley | 386 |
troubadours old and new Jan Fairley | 408 |
compas points Sue Steward and Sean Harvey | 421 |
lovers and poets babylon sounds | 457 |
dancing between the oceans Nigel Gallop and Robin Broadbank | 477 |
music at the crossroads Heidi Munan | 175 |
sixty horses in my herd Carole Pegg | 189 |
songs of praise | 203 |
the real music of paradise Ad Linkels | 218 |
from innocence to funny rap Wang Yingfen | 235 |
raising the roof Mark Trewin | 254 |
Part Two The Americas | 271 |
dancefunk creolestyle | 289 |
vertical expression of horizontal desire | 304 |
junkanoo and sloop john b Jeff Kaliss | 317 |
put water in the brandy? | 507 |
the caribbeans hot hindi sound Tina K Ramnarine | 527 |
ultimate gumbo Simon Broughton and Jeff Kaliss | 552 |
devil stole the beat Viv Broughton and James Attlee | 568 |
rhythm and jews Simon Broughton | 581 |
accordion enchilada Ramiro Burr | 604 |
salsa con gasolina Phil Sweeney and Dan Rosenberg | 624 |
Part Three Directories | 631 |
Contributors | 650 |
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