The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music Paperback - 2004
by Chris Nickson; Foreword by Youssou N'Dour
Discover world music--for illumination, enlightenment, and inspiration. Like few other musical forms, world music encompasses hundreds of different traditions and cultures, many intoxicating moods, and a richly diverse catalogue of music and musicians.
THE MUSICIANS, including: Paco de Lucia, King Sunny Ade, Ravi Shankar, The Gipsy Kings, Tito Puente, Bob Marley, Beny Moré, The Chieftains, Wu Man, Sheila Chandra, and Miriam Makeba
THE STYLES, including: African reggae, Indonesian gamelan, Brazilian bossa nova, Hindu Carnatic, Chinese opera, Russian folk, Nordic fiddle and ballad, Argentine tango, Parisian bal-musette, Spanish flamenco, Greek rembetika, and Trinidad calypso
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World music is, by its very nature, a sprawling term.
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- Title The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music
- Author Chris Nickson; Foreword by Youssou N'Dour
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 265
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Perigee Books, New York, NY
- Date December 7, 2004
- ISBN 9780399530326 / 0399530320
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.46 x 5.16 x 0.77 in (18.95 x 13.11 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects World music - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004050502
- Dewey Decimal Code 780.9
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