A useful reference work on sounds from around the globe which offers coverage of genres from Afrobeat to Arabesque, and artists from Amadou & Mariam to Umm Kulthum. It includes articles on more than 60 countries written by contributors, discographies for each article with biographical notes on thousands of musicians, and reviews of their CDs.

A work on sounds from around the globe. It includes articles on more than 60 countries from Albania to Wales and Afghanistan to Vietnam, focusing on popular and roots music.

As the largest nation in Latin America, Brazil is home to some of the most celebrated music in the world. This case study in the Global Music series explores the contemporary diversity of Brazilian music. It is packaged with a 60-minute audio CD, containing examples of the music discussed.

Aims to take you around the world on a culinary journey that is also a cultural and social odyssey. This book combines scholarship with a fun approach to the study of the world's foods, musics, and cultures. It is a companion for anyone embarking on a cultural-culinary journey.

Attempts to go behind the phrase world music to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it and why? Through chapters that focus on specific areas of music, such as rembetika, fado, trance music and new folk, this book explores the genres that have emerged from marginalized communities.

Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late-1960s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz guitar, avant-jazz, and electronic music and in doing so blew apart the status quo of Brazilian culture, putting himself in danger.

Presents a case study in the Global Music series. This book focuses on the variety of music that fill the eastern Arab world, with special focus on music found in modern day Egypt. Suitable for performer musicians and fieldworkers, it provides an intimate sense of the fabric of the music itself and of aspects of the context of music in Egypt.

In 1995, Banning Eyre went to Bamako, the capital of Mali to study guitar playing with Djelimady Tounkara, a former star of the Super Rail Band. This title presents an account of Eyre's trip - an insider-view into African music. It reveals the triumphs and failures of the African music scene.

World Music: The Basics is an introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make world music one of the most exciting new musical genres.

Attempts to draw readers into a range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. This work helps the reader witness music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversity.

Includes discussions of developments in samba and other key genres, the rise of female singer-songwriters, works by artists like Milton Nascimento and Gilberto Gil and the mixing of bossa with electronica. This work contains discussions of: musica sertaneja and musica caipira; Brazilian funk and rap/hip-hop; and, electronic dance music.

From cha cha cha to jeliya and Hindustani raga to hip-hop gamelan, this text takes students on a journey through diverse musical cultures and traditions of the world. It is a useful introduction to world music for non-music and music majors alike.

This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth century.

The salsa scene of the 1970s was diverse and full of bands struggling to gain recognition. Some of the biggest names, such as Fruko and Machito, emerged from this 'Golden Era', but The Rough Guide To Salsa Gold is also about digging deeper, about discovering buried treasure. It's about giving little known groups like Orquesta Dee Jay a chance to shine again, or uncovering that obscure track by a .

Introducing cultural and social processes and the values of music in Javanese life, this text features eye witness accounts of performances, interviews with key performers, hands-on activities, vivid illustrations and a 70 minute CD of the author's field recordings. The author provides a survey of other music that may be found in Central Java.