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Title: World Music: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Philip Vilas Bohlman ISBN: 0-19-285429-1 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: VERY ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES
Comment: This is a very academic study of the phenomenon of world music. As such it provides interesting theories and also some important facts, but I doubt whether the average world music fan would derive much enjoyment from it. The author includes worldwide music from the folk, art and popular traditions and mentions that it can be sacred, secular or commercial. So far, so good, but with sentences like: "As we encounter world music, therefore, it is important to recognize the need to reckon with different epistemologies and ontologies if we are to understand what world music can mean in its virtually infinite varieties," I nearly fell of my chair laughing. In its defence, the book does include informative albeit short pieces on the 1932 Cairo Congress of Arab Music, the great Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, Rai music, Leadbelly, Celtic music, the Eurovision Song Contest, Bob Marley, Manu Dibango from Cameroon and the musics of the various diasporas. Two maps are included: The Celtic Fringe in Europe and the Polka Belt in the USA plus there are illustrations, a bibliography, discography and an index. I picked up the book without properly checking the contents - it's great source material if you want to write a dissertation on music from different traditions, but not a text that reflects the rhythms of the rich variety of world music that is becoming more and more available to everybody in our current era of globalisation.
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Title: The Cultural Study of Music by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton ISBN: 0415938457 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Music: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Nicholas Cook ISBN: 0192853821 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: One Bread, One Body: Exploring Cultural Diversity in Worship by C. Michael Hawn ISBN: 156699277X Publisher: Alban Inst Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Study of Ethnomusicology by Bruno Nettl ISBN: 0252010396 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: March, 1983 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music by Georgina Born, David Hesmondhalgh ISBN: 0520220846 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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