Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: World Music: A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): Bohlman Philip V. (Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor In Jewish History Department Of Music And The College The University Of Chicago)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198829140
Pages: 192 Pages, 10 Black And White Images, 2 Maps
Publication Date: 10/1/2020
Series: Very Short Introductions
Category: World Music