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Contemporary World Music

Description

Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. This release includes 637 albums, equaling 8,609 tracks.  The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat. Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database.

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3 simultaneous users.

Further Help

Access to this database is provided for the staff and students of the University of Newcastle. For further assistance or enquiries please contact an Information Desk or submit an enquiry via ASAPinfo.