Product Description: The Rough Guide to World Music is the unchallenged reference work on sounds from around the globe. This third edition is more comprehensive than ever - updated and expanded throughout and with a number of new countries added. Volume 1: Africa & Middle East has full coverage of genres from Afrobeat to Arabesque, and artists from Amadou & Mariam to Umm Kulthum...read more

Divided by region and subregion, this volume examines the indigenous music of different countries, its current status, major performers, and special instruments. (view table of contents)

Divided by region and subregion, this volume examines the indigenous music of different countries, its current status, major performers, and special instruments.

Provides short biographies of artists from around the world, including Selena, Bob Marley, and Ravi Shankar, and includes reviews of thousands of compact discs (view table of contents)

Divided by region and subregion, this volume examines the indigenous music of different countries, its current status, major performers, and special instruments