MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide
Everybody knows the world has two types of music, quips David Byrne, "My kind, and everyone else's."And here in the Western world we define "everyone else's" as world music, but the dichotomy is disappearing. It's a small world with a huge record collection.MusicHound World is the only travel guide your ears will need. It reviews and recommends thousands of CDs and provides pertinent bio and background information on 1,000 artists. You'll also discover styles, instruments and cultures in scores of informative sidebars and enjoy nearly 200 photographs. Includes free CD sampler.