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Article: Cuba's impact on dancing feet: For lovers of Cuban music, 'Rough Guides' offers a range of songs and history.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)

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September 14, 2001
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Byline: Norman Weinstein Special to The Christian Science Monitor

Over the past decade, "Rough Guides" have distinguished themselves as travel books packed with authoritative information written in a breezy yet intelligent style. In recent years, "Rough Guides" has begun to offer popular music guides and has lent its trademark to a series of accompanying CDs that cogently complement the musical "Rough Guides." Their latest batch of books and CDs centers on Cuba, and any lover of Cuban music can't afford to miss them.

Philip Sweeney's The Rough Guide to Cuban Music (Rough Guides, $11.95) is a diminutive paperback that packs a wallop. Eminently ...

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