World music : a very short introduction / Philip V. Bohlman.
World music : a very short introduction / Philip V. Bohlman.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N780.9/233
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English
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178 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Contents
1. In the beginning...myth and meaning in world music -- 2. The West and the world -- 3. Between myth and history -- 4. Music of the folk -- 5. Music of the nations -- 6. Diaspora -- 7. Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2002.
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"Philip Bohlman asks: What is music? If the question is simple, the answers are not. In this fascinating introduction to the remarkable diversity of world music - from Swiss yodeling to pilgrims' chants, Yiddish folk songs to Àrt-Song' from Tunis - Bohlman explores the interpretation and, sometimes, misinterpretation of world music by the West."--...
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World music : a very short introduction / Philip V. Bohlman.
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Very short introductions ; 65.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-160) and index.
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N780.9/233
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74VvB0Ek5oAl
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0192854291
9780192854292
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780.9
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991016563589702626
