World Music: A Very Short Introduction
by Bohlman, Philip V.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-08-29
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
World Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversity. This book is wide-ranging in its geographical scope, yet individual chapters provide in-depth treatments of selected music cultures and regional music histories. The book frequently zooms in on repertoires and musicians--such as Bob Marley, Dana International, Bartok, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan--and attempts to account for world music's growing presence and popularity at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Author Biography
Philip V. Bohlman is Professor of Music and Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| List of illustrations | p. xix |
| Maps | p. xx |
| In the beginning...myth and meaning in world music | p. 1 |
| The West and the world | p. 23 |
| Between myth and history | p. 47 |
| Music of the folk | p. 64 |
| Music of the nations | p. 88 |
| Diaspora | p. 111 |
| Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music | p. 130 |
| References | p. 151 |
| Further reading | p. 157 |
| Listening | p. 161 |
| Index | p. 165 |
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