World Music

From the founder of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a profoundly personal exploration of music's power to build cultural bridges that last.I ...

The didgeridoo, or yidaki, is one of the most ancient musical instruments on Earth. The Tzolkin Trilogy showcases the primal sound of the didgerido...

The fifteen essays of Performing History glimpse the diverse ways music historians do history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter...

Polyphonic Revolution focuses on the cultural debate within the left during the Popular Unity government in Chile (1970-73).Seeking to map such a d...

Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist ...

Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist ...

London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimul...

Puerto Rico is often depicted as a racial democracy in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Regg...

Chico Buarque comprises a critical appreciation of the self-titled album (1978), which is one of the Brazilian artists most representative. This vi...

Thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Gilroy have long championed sound as an affective register of Black subjectivity, particularly in the Afric...

Thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Gilroy have long championed sound as an affective register of Black subjectivity, particularly in the Afric...

A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coastSounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear t...

A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coastSounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear t...

A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reveals the many contradictions of Syrian identity in the 21st centuryDabke, one of Syri...

A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reveals the many contradictions of Syrian identity in the 21st centuryDabke, one of Syri...

'I doubt I'll ever read a better account of the history and sociology of popular music than this one.' Brian Eno'Profound.and beyond.' Robert Plant...

Fernando Ortiz (18811969) is recognized as one of the most influential Latin American authors of the twentieth century. Although he helped establis...

There is a longstanding historical and cultural relationship between Congo and Cuba via the slave trade and the return of Cuban music to Africa, a ...

Satiricized by Strauss II to highlight the deceptive aristocratic class, under Schoenberg, Mahler, and Weberns pens the waltz became the pivot betw...

Presenting a comprehensive overview of some major traditional Indian rhythms, this book adopts a novel visual approach towards representing these r...

The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are best known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station in 1966, protesting against mistreatment by th...

This volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures in the Eastern BalticsLithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russiaat the end ...

The story of Black British music is a five-hundred-year journey from the court of King Henry VIII to the Ends of South London; from Africa to the C...

World music emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of enco...

Cuban Music Counterpoints maps the intellectual and artistic networks Cuban composers forged between 1940 and 1991 by exploring moments--concerts, ...

Approximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal ...

World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to ex...

A landmark in Brazilian music scholarship, A Respectable Spell introduces English-speaking readers to the rich history of samba from its nineteenth...

ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid engages with global scholarship on development, poverty, and applied research. It addresses th...

Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented amo...

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the glo...

Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, ...