- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press (August 29, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0192854291
- ISBN-13: 978-0192854292
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.
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