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2002

Format:	Book
Author:	Bohlman, Philip V., 1952- author.
Title:	World music : a very short introduction / Philip V. Bohlman.
Publisher, Date:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:	177 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.
Summary:	"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."--Jacket.
Series:	Very short introductions ; 65 Very short introductions ; 65.
Subjects:	World music -- Analysis, appreciation. World music. World music -- History and criticism.
Genre:	Music.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index.
Contents:	In the beginning, myth and meaning in world music -- The West and the world -- Between myth and history -- Music of the folk -- Music of the nations -- Diaspora -- Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music.
Web Site:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description
LCCN:	2002512787
ISBN:	0192854291 9780192854292
Other Number:	50214525
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Control Number:	135159
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Call Number:	780.9 Bohlman

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