World Music: a Very Short Introduction
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780198829140
Paperback|9780198829140
✨ Featured Offer
Brand New
$14.14
List Price: $11.95
🚚
See all 5 offers from $14.14 FREE standard delivery by: 05 Apr 2026
Overview
The term "world music" encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures, and holdsthe power to evoke the exotic and give voice to the voiceless. Today, in both sound and material it has a greater presence in human societies than ever before. The politics of which world music are a part - globalization, cosmopolitanism, and nationalism - play an increasingly direct role insocieties throughout the world, but are at the same time also becoming increasingly controversial.In this new edition of his Very Short Introduction, Philip Bohlman considers questions of meaning and technology in world music, and responds to the dramatically changing political world in which people produce and listen to world music. He also addresses the different ways in which world music iscreated, disseminated, and consumed, as the full reach of the internet and technologies that store and spread music through the exchange of data files spark a revolution in the production and availability of world music. Finally, Bohlman revises the way we think of the musician, as an increasinglymobile individual, sometimes because physical borders have fallen away, at other times because they are closing.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, andenthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
| ISBN-13 | 9780198829140 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0198829140 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 4.25 x 0.25 x 6.75 In |
| List Price | $11.95 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 192 pages |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Published On | 2020-10-01 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
✨ Brand New
Seller details
Alibris
Sparks, NV, USA
Contains: Unspecified. Very Short Introductions . Includes unspecified.
Free delivery by: 05 Apr 2026
Brand New
Seller details
indoo.com
Avenel, NJ, USA
9780198829140.
Free delivery by: 05 Apr 2026
Brand New
Seller details
GreatBookPrices-
Columbia, MD, USA
100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition. We offer expedited shipping to all US locat...
Free delivery by: 05 Apr 2026
Brand New
Seller details
Paperbackshop
Bensenville, IL, USA
New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot of...
Free delivery by: 05 Apr 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Bonita
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Free delivery by: 05 Apr 2026