For a series of e-books on World Music Topics, search for: FOCUS AND MUSIC AND ROUTLEDGE
Trends in World Music Analysis by
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
This text provides just a sampling of some of the various musical styles and traditions
World music and the Black Atlantic by
Producing and consuming African-Cuban musics on world music stages
Ethnomusicology by
First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
For a series of books on World Music Topics, search for: GLOBAL MUSIC SERIES
World Music : Traditions and Transformations by
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
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
Nettl explains what ethnomusicologists do and the ideological issues they address.
World Music: A Very Short Introduction by
Bohlman discusses World Music in the contexts of discovery/encounter, nationalism, diaspora, colonialism and globalization.
The Interpretation of Cultures by
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