v. 1. Africa, Europe and the Middle East -- v. 2. Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific.

v. 1. Africa, Europe and the Middle East -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Europe -- Albania : the eagle has landed / Kim Burton -- Alpine music : the alpunk phenomenon / Christoph Wagner -- Austria : soul music of old Vienna / Christoph Wagner -- Baltic states : singing revolutions / Andrew Cronshaw -- Belgium : Flemish, Walloon and global fusion / Paul Rans -- Bosnia-Herzegovina : sad songs of Sarajevo / Kim Burton -- Bulgaria : the mystery voice / Kim Burton -- Croatia : toe tapping tamburicas / Kim Burton -- Czech & Slovak Republics : East meets West / Jir̂i Plocek -- Denmark : a new pulse for the Pols / Andrew Cronshaw -- England -- folk roots : England's changing roots / Colin Irwin -- England/UK -- Bhangra/Asian beat : one way ticket to British Asia / DJ Ritu -- Finland : new runes / Andrew Cronshaw -- France : music of the regions / Philippe Krüm and Jean-Pierre Rasle -- Germany : Kraut kaunterblast / Ken Hunt -- Greece : songs of the Near East / Marc Dubin and George Pissalidhes -- Greenland : sealskin hits / Etienne Bours -- Gypsy music : kings and queens of the road / Simon Broughton -- Hungary : a musical mother tongue / Simon Broughton -- Iceland : waiting for the thaw / Andrew Cronshaw -- Ireland : dancing at the virtual crossroads / Nuala O'Connor -- Italy : tenores and tarantellas / Alessio Surian -- Macedonia : tricky rhythms / Kim Burton.

Netherlands : tilting at windmills / Wim Bloemendaal -- Norway : fjords and fiddles / Andrew Cronshaw -- Poland : hanging on in the highlands / Simon Broughton -- Portugal : traditional riches, fate and revolution / Andrew Cronshaw and Paul Vernon -- Romania : taraf traditions / Simon Broughton -- Russia : music of the people / Simon Broughton and Tatiana Didenko -- Sámiland : joiks of the tundra / Andrew Cronshaw -- Scotland : from Strathspeys to acid croft / Pete Heywood and Colin Irwin -- Serbia & Montenegro : Balkan beats / Kim Burton -- Spain -- Flamenco : a wild savage feeling / Jan Fairley -- Spain -- regional musics : a tale of Celts and Islanders / Jan Fairley -- Sweden : a devil of a polska / Andrew Cronshaw -- Ukraine : the bandura played on / Alexis Kochan and Julian Kytasty -- Wales : harps, bards and the gwerin / William Price.

pt. 2. Middle East -- Arab world/Egypt -- classical : partner of poetry / David Lodge and Bill Badley -- Armenia : the sorrowful sound / Harold Hagopian -- Egypt : popular/street music : Cairo hit factory / David Lodge and Bill Badley -- Georgia : a feast of songs / Simon Broughton -- Gulf & Yemen : sounds of the Arabian Peninsula / Bill Badley -- Iran : the art of ornament / Laudan Nooshin -- Israel : a narrow bridge / Dubi Lenz -- Jewish music -- Sephardic : Ladino romance / Judith Cohen -- Kurdish music : songs of the stateless / Eva Skalla and Mu'tasem Adileh -- Syria, Lebanon & the Levant : Europe meets Asia / Bill Badley and Zein al-Jundi -- Turkey : sounds of Anatolia / Martin Stokes.

pt. 3. Africa -- Algeria -- Rai : music under fire / Andy Morgan -- Algeria -- Kabylia : bards of immigritude / Andy Morgan -- Angola : struggle and talent / Christian Hyde and Richard Trillo -- Benin & Togo : Afro-funksters / François Bensignor and Eric Audra -- Burkina Faso : hidden treasure / François Bensignor -- Cameroon : music of a small continent / Jean-Victor Nkolo and Graeme Ewens -- Cape Verde : music of sweet sorrow / Susana Máximo and David Peterson -- Congo : heart of danceness / Graeme Ewens -- Côte d'Ivoire : heart of the industry / François Bensignor and Brooke Wentz -- Equatorial Guinea : Malabo blues / Manuel Dominguez -- Ethiopia : land of wax and gold / Francis Falceto -- Ghana : gold coast : highlife and roots / Ronnie Graham and John Collins -- Guinea-Bissau : the backyard beat of gumbe / Guus de Klein -- Indian Ocean : a lightness of touch / Graeme Ewens and Werner Graebner -- Kenya : life and times of Kenyan pop / Doug Paterson -- Madagascar : ocean music from southeast Africa / Ian Anderson -- Malawi : sounds Afroma! / John Lwanda.

Mali/Guinea -- mande music : West Africa's musical powerhouse / Lucy Duran -- Mauritania & Western Sahara : ways of the Moors / Dave Muddyman -- Morocco : a basic expression of life / Dave Muddyman -- Mozambique : a luta continua / Celso Paco -- Niger : sounds of the Sahel / François Bensignor -- Nigeria : from hausa music to highlife / Ronnie Graham -- Pygmy music : sounds of the African rainforest / Dave Abram -- Rwanda & Burundi : echoes from the hills / Jean-Pierre Jacquemin, Richard Trillo and Jadot Sezirahigha -- São Tomé & Principe : island music / Conceição Lima and Caroline Shaw -- Senegal & the Gambia : Senegambian stars are here to stay / Mark Hudson, Jenny Cathcart and Lucy Duran -- Sierra Leone : palm wine sounds / Ed Ashcroft and Richard Trillo -- South Africa -- popular music : nation of voice / Rob Allingham -- South Africa : gospel music : spirit of Africa / Gregory Mthembu-Salter -- South Africa ; jazz : hip kings, hip queens / Rob Allingham -- Southern Africa -- archives : Hugh Tracey, pioneer archivist / Mark Hudson.

Sudan : yearning to dance / Peter Verney -- Tanzania -- popular music : mtindo -- dance with style / Werner Graebner -- Tanzania/Kenya -- Taarab : the Swahili coastal sound / Werner Graebner -- Uganda : exiles and traditions / Sten Sandahl -- Zambia : evolution and expression / Ronnie Graham and Simon Kandela Tunkanya -- Zimbabwe : jit, mbira and chimurenga -- play it loud! / Judy Kendall and Banning Eyre -- pt. 4. Directories -- Record labels -- Record shops -- Contributors -- Index.

v. 2. Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Asia and the Pacific (Asia, Australia, Indian Subcontinent, Pacific) -- Afghanistan : red light at the crossroads / Veronica Doubleday -- Australia -- aboriginal music : the original songlines / Marcus Breen -- Cambodia : heavenly dancers / John Clewley -- Central Asian republics : bards of the golden road / Razia Sultanova and Simon Broughton -- China -- Han/traditional : the East is red ... and white / Stephen Jones -- China -- minorities' music : sounds of the frontiers / Helen Rees -- China -- pop/rock : cantopop and protest singers / Joanna Lee -- Hawaii : steel and slide hula baloos / Mike Cooper -- India -- classical : how to listen -- a routemap / Robert Maycock and Ken Hunt -- India -- Hindustani instrumental music : ragas and riches / Ken Hunt -- India -- karnatic instrumental music : sounds of the saints / Ken Hunt -- India -- vocal music : the sacred and the profane / Ken Hunt -- India -- folk and adivasi music : everything is left behind / Ken Hunt and Simon Broughton -- India -- film music : soundtrack to a billion lives / Ken Hunt.

India -- East/West fusion : meetings by the river / Ken Hunt -- Indonesia -- Gamelan : a storm of bronze / Jenny Heaton and Simon Steptoe -- Indonesia -- pop and folk : no risk -- no fun! / Colin Bass -- Japan : the culture-blender / John Clewley -- Korea : our life is precisely a song / Rob Provine, Okon Hwang and Andy Kershaw -- Laos : beyond our khaen / John Clewley -- Malaysia : music at the crossroads / Heidi Munan -- Melanesia : bamboo boogie-woogie / Stephen Feld -- MongoliaTuva : sixty horses in my herd / Carole Pegg -- Nepal : the hills are alive / Carol Tingey -- Pakistan/North India -- Qawwali/folk : songs of praise / Jameela Siddiqi and Peter Culshaw -- The Philippines : pinoy rockers / John Clewley -- Polynesia : the real music of paradise / Ad Linkels -- Sri Lanka : sounds of serendipity / Lalith Ganhewa -- Taiwan : from innocence to funny rap / Wang Ying-fen -- Thailand : songs for living / John Clewley -- Tibet : raising the roof / Mark Trewin -- Vietnam : ancient rock music / Philip Blackburn.

pt. 2. The Americas (Latin America, North America, Caribbean) -- Andean music : beyond the ponchos / Jan Fairley -- Antilles -- Zouk : dance-funk, creole style / Charles de Ledesma and Gene Scaramuzzo -- Argentina -- Tango : vertical expression of horizontal desire / Teddy Peiro and Jan Fairley -- Argentina -- Chamamé, cuarteto and folk : dancing cheek to cheek / Jan Fairley -- The Bahamas : Junkanoo and Sloop John. B / Jeff Kaliss -- Belize : drum 'n' flute legacies / Ronnie Graham -- Brazil : meu brasil brasileiro / David Cleary -- Canada : no more solitudes / Charles Foran -- Chile/Latin America -- nueva conción : an uncompromising song / Jan Fairley -- Colombia : el sonido dorado / Kim Burton -- Cuba -- son & Afro-Cuban music : que rico baila yo / Jan Fairley -- Cuba -- trova & nueva trova : troubadours old and new / Jan Fairley -- Dominican Republic : merengue attacks / Sean Harvey and Sue Steward -- Haiti : compas points / Sue Steward and Sean Harvey -- Jamaica : the loudest island in the world / Gregory Mthembu-Salter and Peter Dalton.

Jamaica -- UK : lovers and poets -- Babylon sounds / Gregory Mthembu-Salter and Peter Dalton -- Mexico : much more than mariachi / Mary Farquharson -- Panama : dancing between the oceans / Nigel Gallop and Robin Broadbank -- Puerto Rico : not quite the 52nd state / Phil Sweeney.

Salsa : Cubans, Nuyoricans and the global sound / Sue Steward -- Trinidad -- Calypso-Soca : put water in the brandy? / Charles de Ledesma and Georgia Popplewell -- Trinidad -- Chutney : the Caribbean's hot Hindi sound / Tina K. Ramnarine -- USA -- archives : filling the map with music / Tony Seeger and Richie Unterburger -- USA -- bluegrass & old-time : high an' lonesome / Nick Barraclough and Kurt Wolff -- USA -- Cajun & Zydeco : ultimate gumbo / Simon Broughton and James Attlee -- USA -- klezmer : rhythm and Jews / Simon Broughton -- USA -- Native America : ha-ya-ya, weya ha-ya-ya! / Andrew Means.

USA -- TexMex/conjunto : accordion enchilada / Ramiro Burr -- USA -- world music/fusion : try a little fairydust / Nigel Williamson and Mark Ellingham -- Venezuela : salsa con gasolina / Phil Sweeney and Dan Rosenberg -- pt. 3. Directories -- Record labels -- Record shops -- Contributors -- Index.