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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Philip V. Bohlman (Professorial Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 11.30cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 17.70cm Weight: 0.166kg ISBN: 9780192854292ISBN 10: 0192854291 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 30 May 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print ![]() Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of Contents1: In the Beginning: Myth, Nature, and the Origins of Music 2: The West and the World 3: Between Myth and History, Between Europe and Its Others 4: Music of the Folk 5: Old-Time Religion 6: Music of the Nations 7: Diaspora 8: Colonial Musics, Post-Colonial Worlds, and the Globalization of Worldbeat Appendix 1Media and Mediation of World Music: A Timeline of Music Technologies Appendix 2World-Music Resources Appendix 3Glossary of World-Music Genres Appendix 4Glossary of Ethnomusicological TermsReviewsPhilip Bohlman's superb study places world music squarely in history - and a lengthy history at that, reaching back to the Age of Discovery and even beyond. * Richard Middleton, University of Newcastle upon Tyne * Philip Bohlman's superb study places world music squarely in history - and a lengthy history at that, reaching back to the Age of Discovery and even beyond. Richard Middleton, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Author InformationPhilip 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |