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World music : a very short introduction / Philip V. Bohlman.

By: Bohlman, Philip V, 1952-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Very short introductions 65. Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002Description: 178 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0192854291.Subject(s): World music -- History and criticismDDC classification: 780/.9
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'World music' emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures. This book draws readers into a remarkable range of these 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. World Music 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, 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-160) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. xi)
  • List of illustrations (p. xix)
  • Maps (p. xx)
  • 1 In the beginning...myth and meaning in world music (p. 1)
  • 2 The West and the world (p. 23)
  • 3 Between myth and history (p. 47)
  • 4 Music of the folk (p. 64)
  • 5 Music of the nations (p. 88)
  • 6 Diaspora (p. 111)
  • 7 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)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Philip V. Bohlman, Professor of Music and Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago, has taught and published from an exceptionally broad range of topics in today's world musics: folk and ethnic music in the USA; the musics of European minorities and refugees; the Middle East and South Asia; the ideological and political dimensions of music in nationalism and racism. He is the 1997 recipient of the Royal Music Academy's Dent Medal, and Bohlman has written, edited, or co-edited seventeen books.