Music 203 & 307: World Music / Ethnomusicology: Introductory Texts

Trends in World Music Analysis by Lawrence Beaumont Shuster (Editor); Somangshu Mukherji (Editor); Noé Dinnerstein (Editor) This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis, seek to break down barriers and build bridges between scholarly disciplines, musical repertoires, and cultural traditions. Covering a wide range of genres, styles, and performers, the chapters bring to bear a variety of methodologies, including indigenous theoretical perspectives, Western music theory, and interdisciplinary techniques rooted in the cognitive and computational sciences. With contributors addressing music traditions from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this volume captures the many current directions in the analysis of world music, offering a state of the fi eld and demonstrating the expansion of possibilities created by this area of research.

Music in World Cultures by Matthew Mihalka & Justin R. Hunter This text provides just a sampling of some of the various musical styles and traditions

World music and the Black Atlantic by Aleysia Whitmore Producing and consuming African-Cuban musics on world music stages

Ethnomusicology by Jennifer Post First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

World Music : Traditions and Transformations by Michael Bakan Through clearly focused case studies of diverse multicultural traditions, Michael Bakan illustrates the transformative life of world musics from traditional folk, ritual, and classical genres to contemporary popular and art musics, jazz, and world beat. Integral connections between particular musics and their historical, cultural, and international contexts are consistently emphasized.

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music by Louise Gray This book is not a guide, but an examination of the political and social issues that surround "World Music."

The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts by Bruno Nettl Nettl explains what ethnomusicologists do and the ideological issues they address.

World Music: A Very Short Introduction by Philip V. Bohlman Bohlman discusses World Music in the contexts of discovery/encounter, nationalism, diaspora, colonialism and globalization.

The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz CLICK LINK for selected essays on culture as related to religion, ritual, social change, nationalism, and ideology.