'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.
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Rezensionen / Stimmen
Philip Bohlman's superb study places world music squarely in history - and a lengthy history at that, reaching back to the Age of Discovery and even beyond. * Richard Middleton, University of Newcastle upon Tyne *
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9 halftones, 2 maps and 1 music example
Maße
Höhe: 177 mm
Breite: 113 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-19-285429-2 (9780192854292)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
Autor*in
Professorial Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London
MEDIA AND MEDIATION OF WORLD MUSIC: A TIMELINE OF MUSIC TECHNOLOGIES; WORLD-MUSIC RESOURCES; GLOSSARY OF WORLD-MUSIC GENRES; GLOSSARY OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL TERMS
