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Old classics revived with high-tech edge You dont need to dust off grandads 78rpm discs to enjoy stunning global recordings dating from early last century published : 2 Feb 2021 at 04:00 13 The Penguin Encyclopedia Of Popular Music released in 1991, edited by Donald Clarke, has more than 3,000 entries on rock, rocknroll, folk, soul, R&B, gospel, country and swing, and a whole host of lesser-known genres. Musicians, songwriters and producers are all in this tome. But what you wont find in such r...

Kyrgyzstan ballads, Okinawa folk, Ugandan hymns … the album rewriting global music history Garth Cartwright Imagine an anthology of 20th-century music making that purposely ignored pop, rock, jazz, blues, country, classical and opera. Cue outrage, at least from English-speaking listeners. But away from the western canon that has come to dominate our conception of music-making, much of the world was busy creating swathes of very different, extremely beautiful music. These overl...

Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 06.13 EST Imagine an anthology of 20th-century music making that purposely ignored pop, rock, jazz, blues, country, classical and opera. Cue outrage, at least from English-speaking listeners. But away from the western canon that has come to dominate our conception of music-making, much of the world was busy creating swathes of very different, extremely beautiful music. These overlooked styles are collated on a new 100-track compilation, An Alternate History of t...