Title: The Cambridge history of world music /
Authors: Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-
Year: 2013
Subjects: World music History and criticism.
Abstract: Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages, and nations throughout world history.
Contents: Part I, Histories of world music. On world music as a concept in the history of music scholarship / Bruno Nettl. Music cultures of mechanical reproduction / Peter Manuel. Western music as world music / Nicholas Cook -- Part II, The history of music before history. Foundations of musical knowledge in the Muslim world / Stephen Blum. Indian music history in the context of global encounters / Bonnie C. Wade. Native American ways of (music) history / Beverley Diamond -- Part III, Music histories of global encounter and exchange. Encounter music in Oceania : cross-cultural musical exchange in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century voyage accounts / Vanessa Agnew. Music, history, and the sacred in South Asia / Jaime Jones. Music, minas, and the Golden Atlantic / Suzel A. Reily --^