World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and PacificSimon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo Rough Guides, 1999 - 673 Seiten The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet. |
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everything is left behind | 94 |
meetings by the river Ken Hunt | 109 |
no risk no fun Colin Bass | 131 |
meu brasil brasileiro David Cleary | 332 |
no more solitudes Charles Foran | 350 |
el sonido dorado Kim Burton | 372 |
que rico baila yo Jan Fairley | 386 |
troubadours old and new Jan Fairley | 408 |
compas points Sue Steward and Sean Harvey | 421 |
lovers and poets babylon sounds | 457 |
dancing between the oceans Nigel Gallop and Robin Broadbank | 477 |
our life is precisely a song Rob Provine Okon Hwang and Andy Kershaw | 160 |
music at the crossroads Heidi Munan | 175 |
sixty horses in my herd Carole Pegg | 189 |
songs of praise | 203 |
the real music of paradise Ad Linkels | 218 |
from innocence to funny rap Wang Yingfen | 235 |
raising the roof Mark Trewin | 254 |
Part Two The Americas | 271 |
dancefunk creolestyle | 289 |
vertical expression of horizontal desire | 304 |
junkanoo and sloop john b Jeff Kaliss | 317 |
put water in the brandy? | 507 |
the caribbeans hot hindi sound Tina K Ramnarine | 527 |
ultimate gumbo Simon Broughton and Jeff Kaliss | 552 |
devil stole the beat Viv Broughton and James Attlee | 568 |
rhythm and jews Simon Broughton | 581 |
accordion enchilada Ramiro Burr | 604 |
salsa con gasolina Phil Sweeney and Dan Rosenberg | 624 |
Part Three Directories | 631 |
Contributors | 650 |
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Seite 10 - Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who had wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path — birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes — and so singing the world into existence.
Seite 12 - Certain phrases, certain combinations of musical notes, are thought to describe the action of the Ancestor's feet. One phrase would say, ‘Salt-pan'; another ‘Creek-bed', ‘Spinifex', ‘Sandhill', ‘Mulga-scrub', ‘Rock-face' and so forth. An expert songman, by listening to their order of succession, would count how many times his hero crossed a river, or scaled a ridge — and be able to calculate where, and how far along, a Songline he was. ‘He'd be able', said Arkady ‘to hear a few...
Seite 531 - In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, contrary to this received wisdom, liberty and popular sovereignty were successfully fused in a few Western countries.
Seite 12 - He went on to explain how each totemic ancestor, while travelling through the country, was thought to have scattered a trail of words and musical notes along the line of his footprints, and how these Dreaming-tracks lay over the land as "ways" of communication between the most far-flung tribes.
Seite 366 - the authentic revolutionary should be behind the guitar, so that the guitar becomes an instrument of struggle, so that it can also shoot like a gun
Seite 24 - The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic is one of the 15 constituent republics of the USSR. The second largest in area, it extends from Siberia in the north to Central Asia in the south, and from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Chinese border in the east. The area is 2,717,200 km2 (1,049,100 mi2), and the population is 15,842,000 (1985 est.).
Seite 171 - ... Prabang. Later, at the expense of lands held by the neighbouring Khmers and Thais, he expanded his kingdom so that by the 14th and 15th centuries Lane Xang was a powerful and prosperous nation. Internal dissension during the 17th century resulted in the kingdom's division into three: the kingdom of Luang Prabang in the north, Vientiane in the centre and Champassak in the south. Each state had its own royal rulers. So weakened, most of the country fell under Thai suzerainty in 1828, while the...