World Music. The Rough Guide

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Rough Guides
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1994
Edition: First Edition

Description: 697 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9781858280172