Dimensions
170 x 234 x 38mm
Africa, Europe and the Middle East
The Rough Guide to World Music was 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 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East has 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 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. Photos and album cover illustrations - many of them unique to this book - are gathered from contemporary and archive sources. Directories of World Music labels and specialist stores around the world and on the Internet are included.
