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With its broad international focus, this volume of the monumental Encyclopedia of Popular Musics of the World exemplifies the best tendencies in recent scholarly work on musical genres and the places in which they live. The scholarship is impeccable, pulling together the insights of four decades of popular music studies, but its real strength lies in the ways it moves the field forward. This volume buzzes with exciting new ideas about musical globalization and the international circulation of genres and forms. Alongside entries on canonical genres such as ‘Country,’ ‘Film Music’ and ‘Heavy Metal,’ entries on such topics as ‘Funeral Music,’ ‘Background Music’ and ‘Circus Music’ offer a welcome opening up of the field. * Will Straw, Professor of Urban Media Studies, McGill University, Canada *

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David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). He proposed the idea of EPMOW with blues scholar Paul Oliver in the 1980s and has worked on the project since then. John Shepherd is a Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Carleton University, Canada. He has been a member of EPMOW’s editorial board since 1990 and has published widely in the sociology and aesthetics of music and popular music studies.

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