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World Music: The Rough Guide

by Simon Broughton, Richard Trillo, Mark Ellingham
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World Music: The Rough Guide
World Music: The Rough Guide

Global music exploration, reviews, and artist insights.

If you're passionate about discovering diverse sounds that span the globe, this guidebook might just become your new best friend. It delves deep, offering insightful commentary and critical analysis of music from seventy different cultural regions. Perfect for expanding your auditory horizon and appreciating the rich tapestry of world music.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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World Music: The Rough Guide

by Simon Broughton, Richard Trillo, Mark Ellingham
$10.90 Now $8.90 Save 18%
ISBN: 9781858280172
Authors: Simon Broughton, Richard Trillo, Mark Ellingham
Publisher: Rough Guides
Date of Publication: 1994-11-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Music, Travel
Related Topics: Reference
Goodreads rating: 4.26
(rated by 46 readers)

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Narrative driven, providing background and context on the music of 70 countries and regions, ranging from salsa to soukous, cajun to calypso, rai to qawwali. Set up in regional chapters. Each explanatory chapter is followed by a discography, with very short reviews of what the editors consider the very best music in the category. Various musicians are spotlighted in sidebars.
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This is a well-read book, which means that the previous owner probably really enjoyed it! The cover and pages may include moderate foxing and annotations, but the text is not obscured and still readable. Moderate cosmetic defects and minor water damage may be present on the edges of the book. For paperbacks, there may be multiple crease marks on the spine.

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Global music exploration, reviews, and artist insights.

If you're passionate about discovering diverse sounds that span the globe, this guidebook might just become your new best friend. It delves deep, offering insightful commentary and critical analysis of music from seventy different cultural regions. Perfect for expanding your auditory horizon and appreciating the rich tapestry of world music.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.