The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music (No-Nonsense Guides)
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1906523126 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yet the work is in no way slight, for Gray packs in more cogent argument and intelligent observation than less disciplined writers manage in tomes of two or three time the length." Nigel Williamson, journalist "Louise Gray confronts with unflinching intelligence, insight, fairness, and a keen awareness of how politics, cultural and contextual differences, fantasies and more prosaic expectations must be taken into account before this remarkable story can be fully understood." David Toop, musician, author and sound curator "Gray has well-tuned political antennae, and, unlike many writers on World Music, has some broad sense of what is currently going on beyond the confines of the latest record label press release, including an awareness of radical and experim
She co-edited Sound and the City (British Council, 2007), a book exploring the changing soundworld of China.. "World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions.Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, and why. Through chapters that focus on specific areas of music, such as rembetika, fado, trance music, and new folk, Gray explores the genres that have emerged from marginalized com
Music columnist for New Internationalist for many years, Louise Gray is a London-based writer and editor whose work on music and performing arts has appeared in many broadsheets and magazines, including The Wire, The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian and Art Review. She also co-edited Sound and the City (British Council, 2007), a book exploring the changing soundworld of China.