World Musics in Context
Subtitle: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures
Contributors: Laurence Picken (Foreword)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 2, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780195175073
First sentence: Awareness of musical traditions other than those of Europe and North America has increased greatly in recent years: tourism has led to familiarity with once-distant lands and peoples, while ever-advancing technological developments have facilitated the wide dissemination, on tape, video, and film, of the sights and sounds of other lands and peoples.