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Joe Boyd's New Book Reveals the West's Fascination with Music from Around the World

Decades in the making, the new book from influential US producer Joe Boyd is the definitive history of how non-Western music became popular across the world

The Rough Guide to World Music: Korea

The Korean musical identity can be traced to the fifth century, and has been well documented since the fifteenth century, as Rob Provine and Keith Howard reveal

The Rough Guide to World Music: Bangladesh

One of the subcontinent’s richest and most fertile grounds for folk, film, devotional and classical music

The Rough Guide to World Music

The Music of Bangladesh: A Rough Guide

One of the subcontinent’s richest and most fertile grounds for folk, film, devotional and classical music

Wu Man: Silk String Stories

Widely considered the world’s leading pipa player, Wu Man tells Simon Broughton about new works excavating the history of her beloved instrument

Nazar: “Angolans could take over the world of pop music if we truly wanted to”

Manchester-based producer Nazar looks back to his conflict-afflicted upbringing in Angola and picks out some audio plums from the debris

Peterloo remembered: Sean Cooney’s haunting folk chronicle of resistance and remembrance

A new play about the Peterloo massacre took centre stage at Manchester Folk Festival

Manu Chao's Clandestino appeared at the cross-fade of the millennium and sounded perfect – a radical masterpiece

Peter Culshaw reminisces on his time biographing the elusive Manu Chao as his classic solo album, Clandestino, is re-released 20 years on

Eliza Carthy's News of the Whirl (April 2024)

Eliza contemplates what is gained, lost and remains the same as the UK looks to ratify its culture through UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage

A guide to the music of Morocco's Jebala mountains

The Jebala mountains of northern Morocco are the source of many musical riches, with plenty of beguiling artists there to be discovered

Roots Round-Up: Watchhouse, Valerie June, The Faux Paws and more

This is quite the grab-bag of music reviews from North American artists, ranging from pop-leaning to super out-there experimental, but still all rooted in tradition

Zoë Modiga interview: South Africa’s new voice on language, identity and #BLM

A deft exploration of identity, Zoë Modiga’s latest album proves the South African is on the up. She speaks with Jane Cornwell about topics ranging from Black Lives Matter to the cultural importance of cattle in African society

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The 4 Corners and Centre of Meridian Brothers’ Universe

Eblis Álvarez, the mastermind behind Colombia’s tropical revivalists Meridian Brothers chooses the albums that shaped him

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PREMIERE: Soema Montenegro 'Viento Norte' (Acoustic)

Ahead of UK shows at the Songlines Encounters Festival in London and Brighton's The Rose Hill, Argentine singer-poet-shaman Soema Montenegro plays stripped-down version of recent album highlight, 'Viento Norte'