"The Rough Guide to World Music" is the unchallenged reference work on sounds from around the globe. This third edition is more comprehensive than ever - updated and expanded throughout and with a number of new countries added. "Volume 1: Africa & Middle East" has full coverage of genres from Afrobeat to Arabesque, and artists from Amadou & Mariam to Umm Kulthum. This book includes articles on more than 60 countries written by expert contributors, discographies for each article with biographical notes on thousands of musicians, and reviews of their best CDs.
London; New York
Rough Guides
Distributed by the Penguin Group
2006
v. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Rough guides
v.1..- v.2.
Rev. ed. of: World music. New ed. 1999-
Includes discographies and index
ISBN-10: 1843535513
ISBN-13: 9781843535515
compiled and edited by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham and Jon Lusk ; with Duncan Clark