num_pages: 720
description: Narrative driven, providing background and context on the music of 70 countries and regions, ranging from salsa to soukous, cajun to calypso, rai to qawwali. Set up in regional chapters. Each explanatory chapter is followed by a discography, with very short reviews of what the editors consider the very best music in the category. Various musicians are spotlighted in sidebars.
language: English
title: World Music: The Rough Guide
titlecomplete: World Music: The Rough Guide
genres: Reference, Music, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Rough Guides