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Book SynopsisRethinking globalisation through music
Trade Review[O]ne of the great strengths of this collection is its ambiguous location of a music often situated rather schematically in a given historical and cultural matrix. Recognition of the political ambiguities makes a welcome shift from some of the more strident positions that have been taken up in public and even scholarly discourse surrounding World Music. . . . The value of this collection extends far beyond World Music.
* Journal of World Popular Music *
[C]ontains many valuable case studies of musical encounters demonstrating the ways music-making both structures and yet provides space for human agency.
* Music & Letters *
Music and Globalization is a responsible interdisciplinary endeavor characterized by the presentation of serious engagements with music and complex ethnography. Most of the authors address critical issues proposed by postcolonial/subaltern theory and critical political economy with notable courage.
* Research in African Literatures *
Music and Globalization productively contributes to over two decades of scholarship in the anthropology of music and in ethnomusicology . . . It is a rich collection and deserves attention from specialists and nonspecialists alike; it will be useful in both graduate and undergraduate curriculums across multiple disciplines (anthropology, ethnomusicology, critical music studies, and media studies).
* American Ethnologist *
'Music and Globalization' includes stimulating contributions, such as Barbara Browning's discussion of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Gilberto Gil in relation to metaphoric and literal forms of 'infectiousness'; Richard Shain's examination of Laba Sosseh's project of Cubanising African popular music; and Daniel Noveck's pondering of beliefs mediated through the place of the violin in the lives of Ramámuri people in southern Chihuahua.June 2012
-- Julian Cowley * The Wire *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking Globalization through Music / Bob W. White
Part 1. Structured Encounters
1. The Musical Heritage of Slavery: From Creolization to "World Music" / Denis-Constant Martin
2. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: "World Music" and the Commodification of Religious Experience / Steven Feld
3. A Place in the World: Globalization, Music, and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Vanuatu / Philip Hayward
4. Musicality and Environmentalism in the Rediscovery of Eldorado: An Anthropology of the Raoni-Sting Encounter / Rafael José de Menezes Bastos
Part 2. Mediated Encounters
5. "Beautiful Blue": Rarámuri Violin Music in a Cross-Border Space / Daniel Noveck
6. World Music Producers and the Cuban Frontier / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
7. Trovador of the Black Atlantic: Laba Sosseh and the Africanization of Afro-Cuban Music / Richard M. Shain
Part 3. Imagined Encounters
8. Slave Ship on the Infosea: Contaminating the System of Circulation / Barbara Browning
9. World Music Today / Timothy D. Taylor
10. The Promise of World Music: Strategies for Non-Essentialist Listening / Bob W. White
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