Excursions in World Music

8 ed (2021)
Lead author Bruno Nettl. The grand-daddy of Ethnomusicology compiled the first edition, and his name and contributions to the field have brought the book forward several editions. Chapters are written by established/known ethnomusicologists specializing in the particular region, in the perhaps the most balanced attempt to get expert authors together.

Does not aim to teach students how to do field work (like Titon), per se, or other ethnomusicological study, and does not aim to teach music - rather, how to think about music in world perspective and the major themes and issues that emerge when we take the musics of the world seriously. Draws a big picture and explains why the musics of the world matter.....the economics, politics, and social dynamics of these sounds.

CONTENIDO:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Studying Musics of the World's Cultures (Timothy Rommen)
Chapter 2: Music of South Asia (Jim Sykes)
Chapter 3: Music of the Middle East and North Africa (Richard Jankowsky)
Chapter 4: Musics of East Asia I: China and Taiwan (Lei Ouyang)
Chapter 5: Musics of East Asia II: Korea (Joshua D. Pilzer) /
Chapter 6: Musics of East Asia III: Japan (Marié Abe) /
Chapter 7: Music of Maritime Southeast Asia (Jim Sykes) /
Chapter 8: Music of Sub-Saharan Africa (Chérie Rivers Ndaliko)
Chapter 9: Music and Europe (Andrea F. Bohlman)
Chapter 10: Music of Latin America (Timothy Rommen) /
Chapter 11: Music of the Caribbean (Timothy Rommen) /
Chapter 12: Music of Indigenous North America (Byron Dueck)
Chapter 13: Music of Ethnic North America (Byron Dueck)