Useful for both non-music and music majors, this resource focuses on world music with a unique tradition-and-transformation emphasis that covers a wide range of music styles from traditional folk and classical genres to contemporary world beat, popular, jazz, and experimental mu…
This volume offers a distinctive theoretical perspective and advanced insights into how music is impacted by the interaction of global forces with local conditions. As the first major book to apply the timely notion of 'glocality' to music, this collection features robust schola…
Introduces students to the diversity of musical expression around the world. This title takes the reader across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It presents a systematic study of varied traditions in a non-technical la…
This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. It focuses on how traditional Brazilian musical styles have been influenced by international popular music to form new hybrids. Since the heyday of Carmen Mir…
First published in 1994 in one volume. An A-Z of the music, musicians and discs. 2006 edition available as an e-book.
by Broughton, Simon, Ellingham, Mark
fromRough Guides music reference series
A unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, making the case for music as a powerful tool to brind people together. --publisher.
A unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, making the case for music as a powerful tool to brind people together. --publisher.
