MUS 133: Introduction to World Music

As the cornerstone of the Global Music Series, Thinking Musically, Third Edition, explores musical diversity by integrating the sounds and traditions of world cultures. Bonnie C. Wade discusses how various cultural influences - gender, ethnicity, mass media, westernization, nationalism, and acculturation - are shaping music and the ways that we experience it.

The contributors critically examine music in cultural encounter and conflict, and as the critical core of scientific theories from the Arabic Middle Ages through the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Overall, the book contains the histories of the music of diverse cultures, which increasingly become the folk, popular and classical music of our own era.

This is a fun place to start your research. It includes a lot of pictures and information about recordings.The text is divided into two volumes: the first covers Africa, Europe and the Middle East while the second covers Latin and Norton America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific.

Bohlman considers questions of meaning and technology in world music, and responds to the dramatically changing political world in which people produce and listen to world music. He addresses the ways in which world music is created, disseminated, and consumed, as the full reach of the internet and technologies that store and spread music spark a revolution in the production and availability of world music.

Excursions in World Music is a comprehensive introductory textbook to world music, creating a panoramic experience for students by engaging the many cultures around the globe and highlighting the sheer diversity to be experienced in the world of music.

Music doesn't stop at the border, and neither should your textbook. This text gives students a global sense of music and its significance across cultures by introducing them to a diverse repertoire and developing listening skills applicable to all music.