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World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit.
List of contents
1 Before the Trip Begins: Fundamental Issues; 2 Aural Analysis: Listening to the World’s Musics; 3 Cultural Considerations: Beyond the Sounds Themselves; 4 Oceania: Australia, Hawai’i; 5 South Asia: India, Pakistan; 6 Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Northeast Thailand, Indonesia (Java and Bali); 7 East Asia: China, Mongolia, Japan, Tibet; 8 The Middle East: Islam and the Arab World, Iran, Egypt, Israel; 9 Europe: Spain, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, Georgia; 10 Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Zimbabwe, Senegal, South Africa; 11 The Caribbean: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba; 12 South America and Mexico: Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico; 13 North America: Canada and the United States
About the author
Terry E. Miller is Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at Kent State University and specializes in the musics of Thailand and Laos. He co-edited the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music volume on Southeast Asia.
Andrew Shahriari is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Kent State University, as well as Coordinator of Online Courses and Graduate Studies in the School of Music. He is author of Popular World Music, Second Edition, also by Routledge.
Summary
World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit.
