Trends in World Music Analysis: New Directions in World Music Analysis

By: Lawrence Beaumont Shuster

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Synopsis: This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis, seek to break down barriers and build bridges between scholarly disciplines, musical repertoires, and cultural traditions. Covering a wide range of genres, styles, and performers, the chapters bring to bear a variety of methodologies, including indigenous theoretical perspectives, Western music theory, and interdisciplinary techniques rooted in the cognitive and computational sciences. With contributors addressing music traditions from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this volume captures the many current directions in the analysis of world music, offering a state of the fi eld and demonstrating the expansion of possibilities created by this area of research.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 338 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000535631
Related ISBNs:: 9781003033080, 9781032197340, 9780367470548
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/24/22
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Lawrence Beaumont Shuster, Somangshu Mukherji, and Noé Dinnerstein
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Education, Music
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Lawrence Beaumont Shuster
Edited by:: Somangshu Mukherji
Edited by:: Noé Dinnerstein