Description
Book SynopsisMissing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End
details Grammy-winning music producer and author Ian Brennan’s ongoing
quest to provide musical platforms for underrepresented nations and
populations around the world.
In a compact and quick-read format, Missing Music
collects the latest narratives from Brennan’s field-recording treks.
This edition features a greater emphasis on storytelling and an even
greater abundance of photos from his wife, Italian-Rwandan
photographer/filmmaker Marilena Umuhoza Delli.
Together, they meet
the elderly shamans of the world’s most musical language, Taa, a tongue
that sadly is dying, with fewer than 2,500 speakers left. The duo
traveled the most remote roads of Botswana to find the formally nomadic
people now relegated to small desert towns.
In Azerbaijan, Brennan
and Delli ascended to the mountainous Iranian border t
