Summary

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World's five-volume work 'Locations' is the most authoritative reference work on the history and current practice of popular music ever published. The five volumes on 'Locations' that form Part 2 of this multi-volume work follow on from the two volumes of Part 1: Media, Industry and Society (Volume I) and Performance and Production (Volume II). They cover over 200 nation states and are organized according to continental regions: Volume III: Caribbean and Latin America Volume IV: North America, Volume V: Asia and Oceania, Volume VI: Africa and the Middle East, and Volume VII: Europe. Each discusses the history, development and current practice of popular music in cities, districts, cross-border regions, nation states and diasporic communities around the world. Includes coverage of:

- The historical, geographical, demographical, political, economic and cultural context
- Genres for which the location is known or which have been important to the development and current practice of its popular music
- Significant venues such as theatres, dance halls, clubs and bars
- The role of the industry: music publishers, record companies/labels, recording studios, radio and TV
- The role of the state and government regulatory bodies
- The teaching and research of popular music in educational institutions
- Songs associated with the location

Notable performers and other practitioners such as producers, engineers, technological innovators, record company heads, journalists, critics and scholars, songwriters, composers and lyricists.

250 leading popular music scholars and practitioners have contributed over 500 entries. They include Rafael José de Menezes Bastos on Brazil, Peter Manuel on India and the Caribbean Islands, John Collins on Ghana, Moya Aliya Malamusi on Malawi, Tôru Mitsui on Japan, Motti Regev on Israel, Martin Stokes on Turkey, Richard Peterson on Nashville, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman on Hawai'I, Bruce Johnson on Australia, Paolo Prato on Italy, Svanibor Pettan on Croatia and Alf Björnberg on Sweden.

Author Biography

David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of IASPM (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music). He was Director of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. Together with the blues scholar Paul Oliver he first proposed the idea of EPMOW in the 1980s, and has worked on the project since that time.

John Shepherd is Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic) and Chancellor’s Professor of Music and Sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He was from 2007-2012 Carleton’s Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs. Dr. Shepherd has been a member of EPMOW’s editorial board since 1990. In 2000, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his role “as a leading architect of a post-War critical musicology.”

Dave Laing is the author of several books on popular music and a former editor of Music Week. He is a former Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, UK where he conducted research on the music industry.

Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Maps
Abbreviations

Part I: Africa

1. African Islands

Comoros – Werner Graebner

Madagascar – Janet Topp Fargion

Mauritius – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)

Reunion – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)

The Seychelles – Guillaume Samson and Alain Courbis (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)

2. Central Africa

Cameroon – Marianne Berna

Central African Republic – Michelle Kisliuk

Chad – Mary Pearce

Congo (Rep.) – Graeme Ewens

Dem. Rep. of Congo – Chris Stapleton

Equatorial Guinea – Chris Stapleton

Gabon Graeme Ewens

3. East Africa

Burundi – Rick Sanders

Kenya – Caleb Okumu Chrispo
Cities:
Mombasa – Caleb Okumu Chrispo
Nairobi – Caleb Okumu Chrispo

Rwanda – Rick Sanders

Tanzania – Werner Graebner
Regions:
Zanzibar – Werner Graebner

Uganda – Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza
Cities:
Kampala – Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza

4. Horn of Africa

Djibouti – Andreas Wetter

Eritrea – Rick Sanders

Ethiopia – Rick Sanders

Somalia – Martin Orwin
Cities:
Muqdisho (Mogadishu) – Martin Orwin

Sudan – Stephen Larrik

5. North Africa

Algeria – Dave Laing

Libya – Philip Ciantar and Abdalla M. Sebai

Morocco – Richard C. Jankowsky
Regions:
Western Sahara – Richard C. Jankowsky

Cities:
Casablanca – Richard C. Jankowsky
Tunisia – Ruth Davis and Richard C. Jankowsky

6. Southern Africa

Angola – Gerhard Kubik

Botswana – Angela Impey

Lesotho – David Coplan

Malawi – Moya Aliya Malamusi

Mozambique – Joa-o Soeiro de Carvalho

Namibia – Minette Mans

South Africa – Sazi Dlamini with Christopher Ballantine and Nishlyn Ramanna
Cities:
Durban – Veit Erlmann
Johannesburg – Rob Allingham
Soweto – Angela Impey

Swaziland – Jonathan Curren

Zambia – Rick Sanders
Zimbabwe – Chris Stapleton

7. West Africa

Benin – Nago Seck and Sylvie Clerfeuille

Burkina Faso – Oger Kabore (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)

Cape Verde – JoAnne Hoffman

Cote d Ivoire – Chris Stapleton

The Gambia – Graeme Ewens

Ghana – E. John Collins
Cities:
Accra – E. John Collins
Cape Coast – E. John Collins
Kumasi E. John Collins

Guinea – Gunter Gretz
Cities:
Conakry – Gunter Gretz

Guinea-Bissau – Guus de Klein

Liberia – E. John Collins

Mali – Banning Eyre

Mauritania – Chris Stapleton

Niger – Mahaman Garba (trans. Dave Laing)

Nigeria – Chris Stapleton
Regions:
Northern Nigeria – Chris Stapleton
Southeastern Nigeria – Meki Nzewi
Western Nigeria – Mosunmola Omibiyi-Obidike

Cities:
Benin City – Emeka Tony Nwabuoku
Ibadan – Mosunmola Omibiyi-Obidike
Lagos – Oluyemi Olaniyan
Onitsha – Meki Nzewi

Sao Tome and Principe – Dave Laing

Senegal – Patricia Tang
Cities:
Dakar – Patricia Tang

Sierra Leone – Christian D. J. Horton

Togo – Nago Seck and Sylvie Clerfeuille

Part II: Middle East

8. Middle East
Afghanistan – John Baily

Armenia – Andy Nercessian
Cities:
Yerevan – Andy Nercessian

Azerbaijan – Fattah Khalig-Zade and Razia Sultanova

Bahrain – Kay Hardy Campbell

Egypt – Karin van Nieuwkerk
Cities:
Cairo – Karin van Nieuwkerk

Iran – Seyed Abdolhossein Mokhtabad Amrei

Iraq – Dave Laing

Israel – Motti Regev
Cities:
Jerusalem – Motti Regev
Tel Aviv – Motti Regev

Jordan – Sami Asmar

Kuwait – Kay Hardy Campbell

Lebanon – Sami Asmar
Cities:
Beirut – Sami Asmar

Oman – Dieter Christensen

Palestine – Dave Laing

Qatar – Kay Hardy Campbell

Saudi Arabia – Kay Hardy Campbell

Syria – Jonathan H. Shannon
Cities:
Damascas – Jonathan H. Shannon
Halab (Aleppo) – Jonathan H. Shannon

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