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World music : a very short introduction

Author: Philip Vilas Bohlman
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series: Very short introductions, 65.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Philip Vilas Bohlman
ISBN: 0192854291 9780192854292
OCLC Number: 50214525
Description: 177 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Contents: 1. In the beginning, myth and meaning in world music --
2. The West and the world --
3. Between myth and history --
4. Music of the folk --
5. Music of the nations --
6. Diaspora --
7. Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music.
Series Title: Very short introductions, 65.
Responsibility: Philip V. Bohlman.
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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