The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music

by Louise Gray

Book Overview

"World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions.

Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, and why. Through chapters that focus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906523126
• ISBN13: 9781906523121
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: New Internationalist
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 7.0"