Npr Curious Listener's Guide To World Music

Discover world music and you'll be illuminated, enlightened, and inspired. Like few other musical forms, world music encompasses so many different traditions and cultures, so many intoxicating moods-and such a diverse catalog of music and musicians. It can be risky, it can be daunting, it can be unexpected, it can be-to borrow Duke Ellington's famous expression-simply "beyond category." It's across the ocean, it's right here at home, it's from places you've never been, it's from generations long gone, and it's forever growing, enriching the world, and enlivening the very heart and soul of music. From Japan to Africa to Brazil to the Middle East, and back again, this is its living history. Book jacket.Nickson, Chris is the author of 'Npr Curious Listener's Guide To World Music', published 2004 under ISBN 9780399530326 and ISBN 0399530320.