Rough Guide to World Music Volume Two: Latin and North America, theCaribbean, Asia & the Pacific

by McConnachie, James; Ellingham, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781858286365
• ISBN10: 1858286360
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-23
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.

Summary

The Rough Guide to World Music was 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 Pacific has 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Part One Asia and the Pacific (Asia, Australia, Indian Subcontinent, Pacific)
Afghanistan: red light at the crossroads	3	(5)
Veronica Doubleday
Australia -- Aboriginal music: the original songlines	8	(12)
Marcus Breen
Cambodia: heavenly dancers	20	(4)
John Clewley
Central Asian Republics: bards of the golden road	24	(9)
Razia Sultanova
Simon Broughton
China -- Han/Traditional: the east is red ... and white	33	(11)
Stephen Jones
China -- Minorities' Music: sounds of the frontiers	44	(5)
Helen Rees
China -- Pop/Rock: cantopop and protest singers	49	(7)
Joanna Lee
Hawaii: steel and slide hula baloos	56	(7)
Mike Cooper
India -- Classical: how to listen-a routemap	63	(7)
Robert Maycock
Ken Hunt
India -- Hindustani Instrumental Music: ragas and riches	70	(9)
Ken Hunt
India-- Karnatic Instrumental Music: sounds of the saints	79	(7)
Ken Hunt
India -- Vocal Music: the sacred and the profane	86	(8)
Ken Hunt
India -- Folk and Adivasi Music: everything is left behind	94	(8)
Ken Hunt
Simon Broughton
India -- Film Music: soundtrack to a billion lives	102	(7)
Ken Hunt
India -- East/West Fusion: meetings by the river	109	(8)
Ken Hunt
Indonesia -- Gamelan: a storm of bronze	117	(14)
Jenny Heaton
Simon Steptoe
Indonesia -- Pop and Folk: no risk -- no fun!	131	(12)
Colin Bass
Japan: the culture-blender	143	(17)
John Clewley
Korea: our life is precisely a song	160	(10)
Rob Provine
Okon Hwang
Andy Kershaw
Laos: beyond our khaen	170	(5)
John Clewley
Malaysia: music at the crossroads	175	(8)
Heidi Munan
Melanesia: bamboo boogie-woogie	183	(6)
Stephen Feld
Mongolia/Tuva: sixty horses in my herd	189	(9)
Carole Pegg
Nepal: the hills are alive	198	(5)
Carol Tingey
Pakistan/North India -- Qawwali/Folk: songs of praise	203	(10)
Jameela Siddiqi
Peter Culshaw
The Philippines: pinoy rockers	213	(5)
John Clewley
Polynesia: the real music of paradise	218	(12)
Ad Linkels
Sri Lanka: sounds of serendipity	230	(5)
Lalith Ganhewa
Taiwan: from innocence to funny rap	235	(6)
Wang Ying-fen
Thailand: songs for living	241	(13)
John Clewley
Tibet: raising the roof	254	(8)
Mark Trewin
Vietnam: ancient rock music	262	(11)
Philip Blackburn
Part Two The Americas (Latin America, North America, Caribbean)
Andean Music: beyond the ponchos	273	(16)
Jan Fairley
Antilles -- Zouk: dance-funk, creole-style	289	(15)
Charles de Ledesma
Gene Scaramuzzo
Argentina -- Tango: vertical expression of horizontal desire	304	(11)
Teddy Peiro
Jan Fairley
Argentina -- Chamame, Cuarteto and Folk: dancing cheek to cheek	315	(2)
Jan Fairley
The Bahamas: junkanoo and sloop john. b	317	(8)
Jeff Kaliss
Belize: drum'n' flute legacies	325	(7)
Ronnie Graham
Brazil: meu brasil brasileiro	332	(18)
David Cleary
Canada: no more solitudes	350	(12)
Charles Foran
Chile/Latin America -- Nueva cancion: an uncompromising song	362	(10)
Jan Fairley
Colombia: el sonido dorado	372	(14)
Kim Burton
Cuba -- Son & Afro-Cuban music: ¡que rico baila yo!	386	(22)
Jan Fairley
Cuba -- Trova & Nueva trova: troubadours old and new	408	(6)
Jan Fairley
Dominican Republic: merengue attacks	414	(7)
Sean Harvey
Sue Steward
Haiti: compas points	421	(9)
Sue Steward
Sean Harvey
Jamaica: the loudest island in the world	430	(27)
Gregory Mthembu-Salter
Peter Dalton
Jamaica--UK: lovers and poets -- babylon sounds	457	(6)
Gregory Mthembu-Salter
Peter Dalton
Mexico: much more than mariachi	463	(14)
Mary Farquharson
Panama: dancing between the oceans	477	(4)
Nigel Gallop
Robin Broadbank
Puerto Rico: not quite the 52nd state	481	(7)
Phil Sweeney
Salsa: cubans, nuyoricans and the global sound	488	(19)
Sue Steward
Trinidad -- Calpyso/Soca: put water in the brandy?	507	(20)
Charles de Ledesma
Georgia Popplewell
Trinidad -- Chutney: the caribbean's hot hindi sound	527	(4)
Tina K. Ramnarine
USA -- Archives: filling the map with music	531	(5)
Tony Seeger
Richie Unterburger
USA -- Bluegrass & Old-time: high an' lonesome	536	(16)
Nick Barraclough
Kurt Wolff
USA -- Cajun & Zydeco: ultimate gumbo	552	(16)
Simon Broughton
Jeff Kaliss
USA -- Gospel: devil stole the beat	568	(13)
Viv Broughton
James Attlee
USA -- Klezmer: rhythm and jews	581	(12)
Simon Broughton
USA -- Native America: ha-ya-ya, weya ha-ya-ya!	593	(11)
Andrew Means
USA -- TexMex/Conjunto: accordion enchilada	604	(11)
Ramiro Burr
USA -- World Music/Fusion: try a little fairydust	615	(9)
Nigel Williamson
Mark Ellingham
Venezuela: salsa con gasolina	624	(26)
Phil Sweeney
Dan Rosenberg
Part Three Directories
Record Labels	633	(10)
Record Shops	643	(7)
Contributors	650	(3)
Index	653