World Music: A Very Short Introduction

Author:   Philip V. Bohlman (Professorial Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192854292


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   30 May 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   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:  

9780192854292


ISBN 10:   0192854291
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   30 May 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: 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 Terms

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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 *


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


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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.

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