World Music

'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.

ISBN 0192854291   Pages 200 ISBN13 9780192854292 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 181 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series ISSN 65 Publication date 30 May 2002   Series title Very Short Introductions Non-book description 178 p. :   Height (mm) 174 Library of Congress 2002512787   Width (mm) 111 DEWEY 780.9   Spine width (mm) 12 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

		Preface
		List of illustrations
		Maps
1		In the beginning...myth and meaning in world music		1
2		The West and the world		23
3		Between myth and history		47
4		Music of the folk		64
5		Music of the nations		88
6		Diaspora		111
7		Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music		130
		References		151
		Further reading		157
		Listening		161
		Index		165

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