The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music

The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music
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Publisher : Perigee Trade
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ISBN-10 : 0399530320
ISBN-13 : 9780399530326
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Book Synopsis The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music by : Chris Nickson

Download or read book The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music written by Chris Nickson and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover world music--for illumination, enlightenment, and inspiration. Like few other musical forms, world music encompasses hundreds of different traditions and cultures, many intoxicating moods, and a richly diverse catalogue of music and musicians. THE MUSICIANS, including: Paco de Lucia, King Sunny Ade, Ravi Shankar, The Gipsy Kings, Tito Puente, Bob Marley, Beny Moré, The Chieftains, Wu Man, Sheila Chandra, and Miriam Makeba THE STYLES, including: African reggae, Indonesian gamelan, Brazilian bossa nova, Hindu Carnatic, Chinese opera, Russian folk, Nordic fiddle and ballad, Argentine tango, Parisian bal-musette, Spanish flamenco, Greek rembetika, and Trinidad calypso


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