- Paperback: 298 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; New Ed edition (11 April 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195063341
- ISBN-13: 978-0195063349
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.5 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,037,170 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An excellent supplementary text for courses dealing with non-Western music. Manuel provides a good balance of social and cultural background with specific musical examples. This book will be recommended reading for all of my survey courses in ethnomusicology."--Michael Largey, Michigan State University
"Comes a lot closer than any reasonable person could have hoped to getting the scoop on an enormous, fragmented, and recondite subject....What you already know he gets right; what you don't know amazes you....Because he's gathered his facts so intelligently and presented them so clearly, he's always readable and often fascinating. You don't have to kid yourself into enjoying all these alien genres to love their stories....Anybody with a yen to expound on the dehumanizing depredations of the culture industry should be forced to read this book. And so should anybody who believes the world is one big global village after all."--Robert Christgau, The Village Voice
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Reflecting the growing interest in popular music from the developing world, this unique book is the first to examine all major non-Western music styles, from increasing familiar genres like reggae and salsa, to the lesser-known regional styles of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, non-Western Europe (Greece, Yugoslavia, Portugal), Asia, and the Near East.
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Much has been written about the distinctions between folk, classical, and more recently, popular musics. Read the first page
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