World Music Resources

The Rough Guide to World Music is the unchallenged reference work on sounds from around the globe. This third edition is more comprehensive than ever - updated and expanded throughout and with a number of new countries added. Volume 1: Africa & Middle East has full coverage of genres from Afrobeat to Arabesque, and artists from Amadou & Mariam to Umm Kulthum. The book includes articles on more than 60 countries written by expert contributors, discographies for each article with biographical notes on thousands of musicians and reviews of their best CDs.

Mimi S. Daitz taught in the Music Department of The City College/CUNY for many years. She is presently the Music Director of the Riverdale Choral Society.

[1] An introduction -- [2] Historical and regional studies.

Explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years-a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage emphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions presents the fresh insights and analyses of musicologists and anthropologists of diverse national origins-African, Asian, European, and American Charts the flow and influence of music. The Encyclopedia also charts the musical interchanges that followed the movement of people and ideas across the continent, including: cross-regional musical influences throughout Africa * Islam and its effect on African music * spread of guitar music * Kru mariners of Liberia * Latin American influences on African music * musical interchanges in local contexts * crossovers between popular and traditional practices. Audio CD included. Also includes nine maps and 96 music examples.

Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, National Museum of Man, National Museums
of Canada, 1971.

Abele, Adolfs. 11 Folk Songs for Mixed Voices. Latvian Student Association Dziesmuvara, 1963.
M1758.A215 D98 Wilson 3E

Helsinki: Ondine, 1999.

Cowell, Henry. Music of the World’s Peoples, vol. 4. Folkways Records FE 4507, 1958.
Record FOLKWAYS FE 4507

Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Baltic Voices 1. Arles: Armonia Mundi, 2002.
Compact Disc 06398

Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Baltic Voices 3. Arles: Armonia Mundi, 2005.
Compact Disc 07823

Ivanovs, Janis. Symphonies Nos. 8 and 20. Hong Kong: Naxos Music Library, 2004.
Online resource

Kalnins, Janis. The Long Night Cantata. Oreland, PA: Kaibala.
Record KAIBALA 30C01