The Other Classical Musics offers challenging new perspectives on
classical music by presenting the history of fifteen parallel
traditions. Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award
for Creative Communication 2015 There is a treasure trove of
underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to
explore it. The Economist Whatis classical music? This book answers
the question in a manner never before attempted, by presenting the
history of fifteen parallel traditions, of which Western classical
music is just one. Each music is analysed in terms of itsmodes,
scales, and theory; its instruments, forms, and aesthetic goals;
its historical development, golden age, and condition today; and
the conventions governing its performance. The writers are leading
ethnomusicologists, and their approach is based on the belief that
music is best understood in the context of the culture which gave
rise to it. By including Mande and Uzbek-Tajik music - plus North
American jazz - in addition to the better-knownstyles of the Middle
East, the Indian sub-continent, the Far East, and South-East Asia,
this book offers challenging new perspectives on the word
'classical'. It shows the extent to which most classical traditions
are underpinnedby improvisation, and reveals the cognate origins of
seemingly unrelated musics; it reflects the multifarious ways in
which colonialism, migration, and new technology have affected
musical development, and continue to do today. With specialist
language kept to a minimum, it's designed to help both students and
general readers to appreciate musical traditions which may be
unfamiliar to them, and to encounter the reality which lies behind
that lazy adjective'exotic'. MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his
career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; since 2010 he
has been the music and opera critic of The Independent. From 1992
to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for
the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his
Kazakh field recordings and, in 2007, two further CDs of his
recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. Contributors: Michael Church,
Scott DeVeaux, Ivan Hewett, David W. Hughes, Jonathan Katz, Roderic
Knight, Frank Kouwenhoven, Robert Labaree, Scott Marcus, Terry E.
Miller, Dwight F. Reynolds, Neil Sorrell, Will Sumits, Richard
Widdess, Ameneh Youssefzadeh
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