Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters Contributor(s): White, Bob W. (Editor), Feld, Steven (Contribution by), Browning, Barbara (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0253223652 ISBN-13: 9780253223654 Publisher: Indiana University Press
Binding Type: Paperback Published: November 2011 Click for more in this series: Tracking Globalization |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnomusicology - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Popular Culture |
Dewey: 780.9 |
LCCN: 2011031949 |
Age Level: 22-UP |
Grade Level: 17-UP |
Series: Tracking Globalization |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.75 lbs) 248 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Choice 08/01/2012 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: World music emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music. In the stories told by the contributors, we meet well-known players such as David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Ry Cooder, Fela Kuti, and Gilberto Gil, but also lesser-known characters such as the Senegalese Afro-Cuban singer Laba Sosseh and Raramuri fiddle players from northwest Mexico. This collection demonstrates that careful historical and ethnographic analysis of global music can show us how globalization operates and what, if anything, we as consumers have to do with it. |
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