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World Music: The Basics.(Book Review)
World Music: The Basics. By Richard Nidel. (The Basics Series.) New York: Routledge, 2005. [xvi, 404 p. ISBN 0-415-96800-3. $75.00 (hbk.); 0-415-96801-1. $16.95 (pbk.).] Bibliography, discographies, index, glossary.
Richard Nidel's book, part of Routledge's The Basics series, offers a whirlwind tour of the world's popular music, with selected descriptions of folk and classical music traditions. After a brief three-page introduction, the work is divided into major categories for Africa, Europe, Middle East, Asia, North and Central America and the Caribbean, South America, and Australia and the South Pacific. These large categories are in turn divided into ...
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