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Compendium consists of over one hundred major biographies and hundreds more thumbnail sketches which focus in on the professional careers and personal lives of the selected artists

• Nina Simone : the high priestess of soul
• Sun Ra : composer from Saturn
• Fela Anikulapo-Kuti : the afrobeat rebel
• Bob Marley : the reggae shaman
• Augustus Pablo : composer of dreams
• The Neville Brothers : first family of groove
• Yabby You : the Jesus dread
• Nadia Gamal : the oriental dance diva.

This is an unmissable collection of interviews and profiles with some of the most influential world music artists of the last fifty years. What do artists such as Bob Marley, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nina Simone, and Sun Ra have in common? All created uniquely powerful music that had a profound effect on their audiences. Through their music and their lives, they became forces of liberation, challenging the established order and inspiring people the world over to look at life in new ways. "Great Spirits" presents a series of personal accounts and interviews with some of the most interesting and important world music artists of the last fifty years, revealing the unique essence of each as a person, musician, and force for global change. Spanning the realms of jazz, blues, reggae, gospel, African, and Middle Eastern music, these artists epitomize musical creativity at its highest level.
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• PREFACE BY BRIAN HARRISON
• INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS KENYON
• CONTENTS
• BIOGRAPHIES.
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Who were the singers, musicians, composers, instrumentalists, and conductors who made the music of the 20th century? What inspired Benjamin Britten to compose Peter Grimes? How did music save Malcolm Sargent when he lost his daughter to polio? What is the link between Vaughan Williams and Charles Darwin? What did Edward Elgar do for classical music in Britain? Could any of the members of the Beatles actually read or write music when they first came together? Nicholas Kenyon, with a long-standing career in music and a wealth of knowledge and experience, has carefully selected around 100 entries from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to go in this anthology.
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