Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi
Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse.
While contemporary globalized musical culture has become ubiquitous
and unremarkable, its fascinating origins long predate the internet
era. In Music and the New Global Culture, Harry Liebersohn traces
the origins of global music to a handful of critical
transformations that took place between the mid-nineteenth and
early twentieth century. In Britain, the arts and crafts movement
inspired a fascination with non-Western music; Germany fostered a
scholarly approach to global musical comparison, creating the field
we now call ethnomusicology; and the United States provided the
technological foundation for the dissemination of a diverse
spectrum of musical cultures by launching the phonograph industry.
This is not just a story of Western innovation, however: Liebersohn
shows musical responses to globalization in diverse areas that
include the major metropolises of India and China and remote
settlements in South America and the Arctic. By tracing this long
history of world music, Liebersohn shows how global movement has
forever changed how we hear music--and indeed, how we feel about
the world around us.
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