World music
Subtitle: a very short introduction
By: Philip V. Bohlman.
Series: Very short introductions ;; 65
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: World music -- History and criticism
Description: "Philip Bohlman asks: What is music? If the question is simple, the answers are not. In this fascinating introduction to the remarkable diversity of world music - from Swiss yodeling to pilgrims' chants, Yiddish folk songs to Àrt-Song' from Tunis - Bohlman explores the interpretation and, sometimes, misinterpretation of world music by the West."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-160) and index.