Musichound World : The Essential Album Guide - Softcover

Mcgovern, Adam

9781578590391: Musichound World : The Essential Album Guide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578590396 ISBN 13: 9781578590391

Publisher: VISIBLE INK PRESS+, 1999

MusicHound World breaks down 1,100 acts and 300 compilation CDs, making sure you pick the best sounds in the world. Resource section and indexes help you explore world music through the ages and around the globe.

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From the Back Cover:

"Everybody knows the world has two types of music," quips David Byrne, "My kind, and everyone else's."

And here in the Western world we define "everyone else's" as world music, but the dichotomy is disappearing. It's a small world with a huge record collection. MusicHound World is the only travel guide your ears will need. It reviews and recommends thousands of CDs and provides pertinent bio and background information on 1,000 artists. You'll also discover styles, instruments and cultures in scores of informative sidebars and enjoy nearly 200 photographs (captured by the lens of renowned world music photographers, Jack and Linda Vartoogian).

Open the pages and explore the sounds of: King Sunny Ad Altan Marc Anthony Beausoleil Asha Bhosle Mary Black Bloque Boukman Eksperyans Eliza Carthy Sheila Chandra Cherish the Ladies Elvis Crespo George Dalaras Gloria Estefan Cesaria Evora Peter Gabriel Rubn Gonzlez of the Buena Vista Social Club Gyuto Monks Huun-Huur-Tu Irakere Eileen Ivers Flaco Jimenez Kassav' Salif Keita Khaled Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Klezmatics Kodo Feta Kuti Ladysmith Black Mambazo Yungchen Lhamo Los Super Seven Baaba Maal Bob Marley Ricky Martin The Mighty Sparrow Youssou N'Dour Ozomatli Maxi Priest Virginia Rodrigues Oumou Sangare Mrta Sebestyn & Muzsiks Selena Ravi Shankar Sister Carol The Skatalites Tarika Carlinhos Brown's Timbalada Ali Farka Tour Vrttin Caetano Veloso Walela Papa Wemba Yothu Yindi Zap Mama, and many more

Newcomer or connoisseur, expand your CD collection with MusicHound World. We'll get you started with the MusicHound World disc from Wicklow Records, featuring the Chieftains, Vrttin, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Mary Jane Lamond and much more. With MusicHound World in hand, you'll successfully navigate this universe of incredible noise.

About the Author:

Adam McGovern has written on every genre of music imaginable--and some inconceivable, which is what he likes best. He has plied this trade for Smug, COVER, B-Side, Raygun, Yahoo! Internet Life, Rock & Rap Confidential, the AlterWorld and Total TV Web sites, and a host of other outlets with similarly lax background checks. A childhood with more relocations than Dr. Richard Kimble gave him a lifelong taste for the rootless variety of world music. He was not raised by wolves as is widely believed, though his parents considered it regularly and still wonder if it's not too late. McGovern has published some of the earliest mainstream features in this country on major world artists like Anglique Kidjo, Zap Mama, and Boukman Eksperyans, as well as the groundbreaking Africa Fte tour. The panoramic cultural view needed for a volume on world music has been fortified by his writings on all other artforms, and his curation of international art exhibits in New York City, not to mention his effortless ability to sit back and be a Russian-German-Romanian-Irish Jew. McGovern comes to the MusicHound World project from baptisms by Rock and Lounge in the same series. He lives in New Jersey with his partner, Lynn, until their cat Mishka gets tired of them.

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