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Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music (Hardcover)
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Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music (Hardcover)
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Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music presents
intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from
diverse cultures across the world. All the authors are experts,
deeply engaged in the traditions they describe. They recount the
contexts in which the music is created and performed, and then hone
in on elucidating how the music works as sound in process.
Accompanying the explanatory prose is a wealth of diagrams,
transcriptions, recordings, and (online) multimedia presentations,
all intended to convey the richness, beauty, and ingenuity of their
subjects. The music ranges across geography and cultures--court
music of Japan and medieval Europe, pagode song from Brazil, solos
by the jazz pianist Thelonius Monk and by the sitar master
Budhaditya Mukherjee, form-and-timbre improvisations of a Boston
sound collective, South Korean folk drumming, and the ceremonial
music of indigenous cultures in North American and Australia--much
of which has never been so thoroughly analyzed before. Thus the
essays diversify and expand the scope of this book's companion
volume, Analytical Studies in World Music, to all inhabited
continents and many of its greatest musical traditions. An
introduction and an afterword point out common analytical
approaches, and present a new way to classify music according to
its temporal organization. Two special chapters consider the
juxtaposition of music from different cultures: of world music
traditions and popular music genres, and of Balinese music and
European Art music, raising provocative questions about the musical
encounters and fusions of today's interconnected world. For
everyone listening in wonderment to the richness of world music,
whether listener, creator, or performer, this book will be an
invaluable resource and a fount of inspiration.
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