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DESMOND DEKKER
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YELLOWMAN
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South Asia
SIDI GOMA
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World Fusion
THE GREATEST SONGS EVER: WORLD
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The Beat Of My Drum: An Autobiography
Babatunde Olatunji with Robert Atkinson
Temple University Press
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World Music Legends
Fela Kuti
The late, great Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti was one of the most dynamic, original and uncompromising musicians to emerge from the great post-colonial African pop explosion in the 1960s and ’70s.
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Travel
Zanzibar
Zanzibar is one of those names, like Timbuktu, that’s become a watchword for the exotic. Invoking it conjures up vague images of a spice island paradise, full of sultans and slavers, pirates and adventurers, and whatever else your imagination can fill in.
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BOOKS
In Search Of The Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl Through Irish Music
Colin Irwin
Carlton/Andre Deutsch
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Making Music In The Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, And Mountain Musicians
Timothy J. Cooley
Indiana University Press
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Global Beat Fusion
Derek Beres
Outside The Box
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Istanbul: Memories And The City
Orhan Pamuk
Knopf
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BOOKS
Cocinando! Fifty Years Of Latin Album Cover Art
Pablo Yglesias
Princeton Architectural Press
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BOOKS
The Mischievous Art Of Jim Flora
Irwin Chusid & Jim Flora
Fantagraphics Books
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Strange Times, My Dear: The Pen Anthology Of Contemporary Iranian Literature
Edited by Nahid Mozaffari
Arcade Publishing
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World Music Features
Marta Topferova
Czech-American singer/songwriter/guitarist Marta Topferova found her way to Latin music. "I’ve always loved the rhythms and styles of Latin America," she says.
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Africa
Africa Remix
Milan Records
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Reggae & Caribbean
SKATALITES
Foundation Ska
Heartbeat
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Reggae & Caribbean
INTENSIFIED! ORIGINAL SKA: 1962-1966
Mango
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Reggae & Caribbean
PARAGONS
On The Beach
Jet Set
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Reggae & Caribbean
THE HARDER THEY COME
Island
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