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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. Extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best CDs. Photos and album cover illustrations gathered from contemporary and archive sources. The guide includes a directory of World Music labels and specialist stores around the world and on the Internet 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.

Author

and edited by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham and Jon Lusk, with Duncan Clark, Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Jon Lusk, Duncan Clark, Rough Guides

Publisher

Rough Guides ; Distributed by the Penguin Group

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781848363366

Subjects

Music, History, Arts

Rating

4.05 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14