Music and the New Global Culture - From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Big Issues in Music
Release date:	September 2019
Authors:	Harry Liebersohn
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-62126-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > History > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-226-62126-X
Barcode:	9780226621265

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