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World Music: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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World Music: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music
across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and
diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and
universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from
encounters with other cultures, and holds the power to evoke the
exotic and give voice to the voiceless. Today, in both sound and
material it has a greater presence in human societies than ever
before. The politics of which world music are a part -
globalization, cosmopolitanism, and nationalism - play an
increasingly direct role in societies throughout the world, but are
at the same time also becoming increasingly controversial. In this
new edition of his Very Short Introduction, Philip Bohlman
considers questions of meaning and technology in world music, and
responds to the dramatically changing political world in which
people produce and listen to world music. He also addresses the
different ways in which world music is created, disseminated, and
consumed, as the full reach of the internet and technologies that
store and spread music through the exchange of data files spark a
revolution in the production and availability of world music.
Finally, Bohlman revises the way we think of the musician, as an
increasingly mobile individual, sometimes because physical borders
have fallen away, at other times because they are closing. ABOUT
THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford
University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every
subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get
ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts,
analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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