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From folk music to worldbeat, world music holds the power to evoke the exotic and give voice to the voiceless. This new edition shows how dramatic political changes are affecting the ways in which people produce and listen to world music, and addresses how new technologies and the internet alter the way we disseminate and listen to it.

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Preface 1: In the beginning: myth and meaning in world music 2: The West and the world 3: Between myth and history 4: Music of the folk 5: Music of the nations 6: Diaspora 7: Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music Further reading Index

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 23/07/2020
      ISBN13: 9780198829140, 978-0198829140
      ISBN10: 0198829140
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      Entertainment Theory of music and musicology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From folk music to worldbeat, world music holds the power to evoke the exotic and give voice to the voiceless. This new edition shows how dramatic political changes are affecting the ways in which people produce and listen to world music, and addresses how new technologies and the internet alter the way we disseminate and listen to it.

      Table of Contents
      Preface 1: In the beginning: myth and meaning in world music 2: The West and the world 3: Between myth and history 4: Music of the folk 5: Music of the nations 6: Diaspora 7: Colonial musics, post-colonial worlds, and the globalization of world music Further reading Index

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