World Music: A Very Short Introduction

by Philip V. Bohlman

Overview

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. WorldMusic 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 worldmusic's growing presence and popularity at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191579455
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	05/30/2002
Series:	Very Short Introductions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
	List of illustrations	xix
	Maps	xx
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