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Book Conference
Meet authors & publishers!
Come join WOMEX 07 authors as they present their latest publications. The authors will read from and discuss their works, even offer titles for sale. Plus there will be plenty of time left over for a question-and-answer session. Jean Trouillet (Germany) is chairing the conference.
 | Etienne Bours
Le sens du son. Musiques traditionnelles et expression populaire (The Sense of Sound: Traditional Music and Popular Expression) | Publisher: Fayard (France, 2007)
In French
Etienne Bours explores the ways traditional music all over the world evolves and how it influences popular music. The author brings readers back to the sense, the deep meaning of the music, a meaning that all too often gets lost in the music business.
| | |  | Etienne Bours, Didier Demolin, Anne-Sophie de Sutter, Henri Lecomte, Eddy Pennewaert
Un monde de musiques. Introduction aux musiques traditionnelles (A World of Music. An Introduction to Traditional Music) with a CD | Publisher: Colophon Records (Belgium, 2007)
In French
Packed with photos and drawings, the book provides a stimulating introduction to traditional music. With numerous examples and many of the songs themselves presented on the accompanying CD, the authors initiate the reader into a universe of cultural diversity.
| | |  | François Bensignor, Chief Editor
Guide-annuaire Planètes Musiques 2007 – 2008: Musiques traditionnelles et du monde en France (Annual Guide Music Planet: Traditional and World Music in France) with European booklet | Publisher: IRMA – Information Centre for Traditional & World Music (CIMT) (France and online, 2007)
In French, with the European book section in English
More than 5,000 selected contacts (artists, bookers, festivals, venues, media, labels, etc.) all over the French territory, plus 500 partner contacts in another 27 European countries (festivals, bookers, labels, distributors, media). Planètes Musiques is the only directory of its kind in the world music business, now in its sixth edition.
| | |  | Josep Coll i Rodriguez
Manual de Supervivencia (Survival Manual) | Publisher: Asesoría Jurídica de las Artes (Spain, 2007)
In Spanish
Manual de Supervivencia is a useful tool for music professionals and studios to learn about putting the principals of artist rights into practice. Special focus on the many types of contracts used in artistic activity, among them record, publisher, performance and management contracts, also including image usage, merchandising and digital distribution. In short, a survival manual in every sense of the phrase.
| | |  | Samuel Charters
Bebo Valdés: Portrait d'une légende cubaine (Original title: Mambo Time) | Publisher (France only): Naïve (2007) Publisher (world-wide): Ars Förlag AB (2001 & 2006)
In French, Swedish (translations) and English (original version)
At the age of 89 Bebo Valdés, the Cuban pianist, arranger and composer who left Havanna in 1960 following the Castro take over, is a legend of Latin music. In 1963 he met his wife and started a new life in a suburb of Stockholm. Mambo Time is the amazing story of Bebo's life and career and his comeback that resulted in seven Grammy Awards.
| last update: 21.9.2007 / subject to change
In 2006 for the first time we hosted a special book publication conference, celebrating WOMEX authors and publishers: Joe Boyd (White Bicycles), Peter Pannke (Singers Die Twice - A Journey Into Unheard India), a new edition of The Rough Guide to World Music; the WOMEX Photographer Julio Etchart (Toys),
Mondomix (Encyclopedia of World Music), Garth Cartwright (Princes Amongst Men: Journeys with Gypsy Musicians).
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