World music [electronic resource] : a very short introduction / Philip V. Bohlman.

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The term "world music" encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures, and holds the p...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Very short introductions ; 65.
Main Author: Bohlman, Philip V., 1952- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Very short introductions ; 65.
Subjects:
World music > History and criticism.
World music > Analysis, appreciation.
Online Access:
Oxford Very Short Introductions: 2020 (Oxford Academic)
Variant Title:
World Music: A Very Short Introduction
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • In the beginning: myth and meaning in world music
  • The West and the world
  • Between myth and history
  • Music of the folk
  • Music of the nations
  • Diaspora
  • Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music