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Our guest Jonathan Ward is an expert on finding music on antique records. His collection, Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World’s Music includes one hundred 78 RPM recordings and ...

Caluza's Double Quartet - Abaqafi (South Africa); Los Chinacos - Zacamandú (Mexico); Itokazu Kame - Hatoma- bushi (Okinawa, Japan); Cheikh Saïd Relizani - Denhar Mabrouk, Pt. 1 (Algeria); Enosse ...

The Penguin Encyclopedia Of Popular Music released in 1991, edited by Donald Clarke, has more than 3,000 entries on rock, rock'n'roll, folk, soul, R&B, gospel, country and swing, and a whole host of ...