Music + Travel Worldwide Tours the Globe Through Sounds and Scenes

Music + Travel Worldwide Tours the Globe Through Sounds and Scenes

New Guidebook Combines a Love of Music with 12 International Destinations

NEW YORK, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Searching the globe for good music? Then listen up and look out for Music + Travel Worldwide, a new guidebook from Museyon Guides, publisher of the Film + Travel series.

Curated by industry experts, Music + Travel Worldwide explores 12 cities through their homegrown music scenes. Readers will: travel to Paris, where Muslim identity meets hip-hop beats; trace the history of jazz in Chicago from its 1920s heyday through its recent revival; and experience the evolution of cumbia in Buenos Aires from the streets to the mainstream clubs.

Music + Travel Worldwide: Touring the Globe Through Sounds and Scenes ($17.95, 208 pages) blends the traditional travel guide with a crash-course in world music, offering:

-- In-depth chapters on 12 music scenes around the world
-- Meticulously researched articles curated by local experts including
prestigious recording artists, music journalists and other industry
insiders
-- Music sidebars and useful travel tips including: genre-specific album,
movie, book, and publication recommendations; timelines; influential
musicians from each destination; and venue listings with easy-to-read
maps
-- Comprehensive index with full discography and 100 festival listings
worldwide
-- 246 full-color photos
-- Inspiration for both the armchair traveler and the get-up-and-go
traveler

-- Original cover illustration by award-winning graphic novelist Jillian
Tamaki of the New York Times

Available at bookstores and online November 3, 2009.

Praise for Museyon Guides

"A travel guide for those seeking out the best in global music," The New York Times

"The books in this series are fun for both actual and armchair travel," ForeWord Magazine

"These are solid books well-written, crowded in the way travel books are but with a sense of purpose and beauty often lacking in their brethren," Rick Kleffel, Bookotron.com

About Museyon Guides

The Museion, built in ancient Egypt, was an institute dedicated to the Muses, the sister goddesses of art, poetry, literature, philosophy and music. Museyon Guides is a literary guidebook publisher that gives curious travelers an innovative look at their passions. Whether it's movies, music, travel, or art, we know readers want a far-reaching, accessible and inventive journey into the things they love.

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Contact:
Heather Corcoran
+1-212-980-8850
heather@museyon.com

Source: Museyon Guides

CONTACT: Heather Corcoran, +1-212-980-8850, heather@museyon.com

Web Site: http://www.museyon.com/

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