The 2006 publication “The Rough Guide to World Music – Africa & Middle East, 3rd Edition” is a superb reference book for both scholars and new followers of world music. Here’s what the publishers say about this edition: “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. The book includes articles on more than 60 countries written by expert contributors, discographies for each article with biographical notes on thousands of musicians and reviews of their best CDs.” Rough Guides also published other reference books on such styles centered on Celtic music, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Other reference books are dedicated to jazz and reggae.
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