TOMES ON VARIED TUNES.

• Author: Holston, Mark
• Position: Brief Article

In recent years, music styles outside the well-defined mainstream of popular and classical idioms have become the rage. Composers, musicians, and vocalists from Peru, Panama, Venezuela, the Cape Verde Islands, and other locales far removed from the traditional centers of global culture today enjoy critical and popular recognition virtually unprecedented since the advent of recording technology.

Fortunately, the publishing world has taken note of this trend and has responded by making available an increasingly diverse number of titles. Many works have been...