Enjoy The Virgin Directory Of World Music Author Philip Sweeney Visible In Softcover

There was a big marketing push by the record companies in the lates through the mids to push "world music", which is to say, I suppose, "Third World" music, to the USA and other big markets.
That's simplistic on so many levels it defies easy explanation, and I won't do it things like vintage blues, Cajun music, and Irish fiddlers all seemed to fall under this same broad rubric, not not mention all the synthedup, discofied "worldbeat" blends.

Anyway, this guide was one of the first attempts to bring some order to this for the musicbuying consumer, Its main advantage is brevity, Its main drawback is brevity, The sampling here is simply inadequate, even though the explanatory cultural/historical text does a valiant job at giving context, This guide was pretty much blown out of the water inwhen the "Rough Guide to World Music" came out see that sitelink goodreads. com/book/show/ . .