Abstract
As I was sunning on the beach this past summer, I read Ross Kidd’s bibliography and essay on popular performing arts in the Third World. My choice of reading material caused great consternation among my companions, who felt it would ward off anyone who otherwise might stop and chat. My friends suggested that reading a bibliography on a beach is tantamount to a formal announcement that one is a dull person. There is a degree of truth in this: bibliographies, notoriously short on narrative, let alone suspense, are dull reading. But then, they aren’t meant to be read like a novel. Bibliographies are resource material. By citing available material on a given subject, the bibliographer saves the rest of us a lot of time.
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