November 2011
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Soundway's Musical Map of Colombia →
Soundway Records has created this fantastic interactive musical map of Colombia to accompany a forthcoming 55-track CD of Colombian music called The Original Sound of Cumbia: The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948-79.
The map lets you hear a variety of Colombian music, while also giving you a visual of where exactly it came from. This CD certainly looks to be...
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Alan Lomax: The man who recorded the world
Those of you who have heard of ethnomusicologist and folklorist (and also archivist!) Alan Lomax (1915-2002) most likely know of him through his revolutionary Southern Journey series and passion for American folk music. But Lomax’s reach stretched all over the world, from Scotland to the Caribbean, and then even into rural America, including prisons to meet musicians like Huddie...
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Mozipedia: the Encyclopedia of Morrissey and the...
For those fans of Morrissey and the Smiths who want the ultimate in Morrissey-related reference, there’s a book for you, too! Simon Goddard recently published the be-all and end-all of Morrissey books, the Mozipedia: the Encyclopedia of Morrissey and the Smiths.
The entries in the Mozipedia are split into six main categories, which the table of contents (or the Mozingredients) goes into...
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The Beatles Complete Scores
This book isn’t really a book at all - it’s an incredibly large collection of scores to every song the Beatles ever wrote, from A Day in the Life to Your Mother Should Know, transcribed by Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Hagino, Hajime Kubo, and Goro Sato.
Containing 210 songs, The Beatles Complete Scores is a very faithful transcription of the recordings of the Beatles containing vocal,...
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Anthology of Rap
Despite being a small library, we still get plenty of new books in. One book we’ve been flipping through that we want to highlight is the Anthology of Rap from Yale University Press (2010), edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew Dubois.
At over 850 pages, the Anthology is a serious collection of rap lyrics which can at first be intimidating, but need not be. The editors set up the book to go...
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