Popular Musics of the Non-western World: An Introductory Survey - Hardcover

Manuel, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195053427 ISBN 13: 9780195053425

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1989

Synopsis

This volume sets out to examine non-Western urban music styles, from familiar genres like reggae and salsa to the lesser-known regional styles of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, non-Western Europe, Asia and the near East. The author establishes parameters that distinguish popular music from both folk and classical music, defining popular music as music created with the mass media in mind and reproduced on a mass basis as a saleable commodity for large public consumption.

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Review:

`It would be difficult to imagine a more ambitious and timely piece of ethnomusicological scholarship than Manuel's engaging and sympathetic overview ... The text is thoroughly documented with reliable, contemporary references; the glossary is a valuable reference tool in itself.' Choice

'Peter Manuel's Popular Music of the Non-Western World is perhaps the first comprehensive "textbook" on worldwide popular music ... a much needed addition to the sparse but growing literature in this area of study.'Stephen H. Martin, Portland State University, Notes, June 1993

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0195053427
• ISBN 13: 9780195053425
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304