Blog: PopMatters

Although they neglect women and rappers, the World Music Network succeeds in whetting the appetite for more of the NOLA sound. It's impossible to capture the spirit of a whole city's music on a disc or two. But that is an uncharacteristically small-minded goal for the World Music Network, whose recent Rough Guide releases have attempted to encapsulate the music of entities much larger than cities, such as psychedelic Africa, Celtic women, and Morocco. The Rough Guide series has now set its sights on New Orleans, which is part of the 46th largest metropolitan area in...