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Title:
World music : a very short introduction / Philip V. Bohlman.
Author:
Bohlman, Philip Vilas.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Call Number:
ML3470 .B68 2002
Abstract:
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
ISBN:
9780192854292
Series:
Very short introductions ; 65

Very short introductions ; 65.
Physical Description:
177 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Contents:
In the beginning, myth and meaning in world music -- West and the world -- Between myth and history -- Music of the folk -- Music of the nations -- Diaspora -- Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music.
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