World Music

In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the Rational MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hi...

From pirate radio to Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, journalist and rapper Franklyn Addo pens an extraordinary narrative of the history, present and f...

Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while many people in the United States and Europe a...

***WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE******WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION AWARD***A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edward...

Louisiana State Penitentiary is one of the largest and most brutal maximum-security prisons in the United States. Built on the grounds of a former ...

Trance events have an uncanny ability to capture an era, and captivate an audience of travellers occupying the eternal theatre of the dance floor. ...

This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious.This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined ...

An exhilarating debut novel told through three different voices, Whites Can Dance Too is Kalaf Epalanga's reflection on and celebration of the musi...

Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the out...

Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as ...

In the twenty-first century, Senegalese hip hop--Rap Galsen--has reverberated throughout the world as an exemplar of hip hop resistance in its mobi...

When a tragic plane crash took the life of singer and actress Jenni Rivera on December 9, 2012, the world lost an artist whose talents transcended ...

Notes from Africa traces the rise of popular music on the continent beginning in the 1980s when the term world music was coined as a marketing lab...