Encyclopedia of World and Folk Music

The Virgin Encyclopedia of World & Folk Music is the first all-inclusive, definitive reference book of its kind. Tracing the history and development of every form of roots music, the encyclopedia profiles and evaluates every significant artist within the field. This exciting volume includes such singers as Am DiFranco. Joan Baez, the Afro-Cuban All Stars, The Dubliners, Richard and Linda Thompson, Burl Ives and countless others. With the many quibbles about the boundaries of folk and world music artists, this volume has unequivocally included them all. There is an artist in this volume for every type of fan because these are the artists who write and stag songs of conscience. Each entry is a beautiful celebration of difference, completely unpretentious and without judgment and fully compliant with the guarantee of excellence that the Virgin Encyclopedia series maintains. Colin Larkin accentuates the uniqueness of each artist yet seamlessly manages to add their voice to the world chorus by placing them together in one masterfully executed encyclopedia.Larkin, Colin is the author of 'Encyclopedia of World and Folk Music', published 1999 under ISBN 9780753502471 and ISBN 075350247X.