World Music: A Very Short Introduction

• World music is presented in its full historical and modern diversity, ranging from folk and traditional music to 'worldbeat'
• It devotes space in each chapter to those who make and study world music, the musicians and the scholars in the field
• Bohlman strikes a balance between capturing the boundlessness of world music and the trappings of globalization.

Readership: World music enthusiasts and those new to world music looking for a way in; students of ethnomusicology, music history, and anthropology.

Philip V. Bohlman, Professorial Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London

"Philip Bohlman's superb study places world music squarely in history - and a lengthy history at that, reaching back to the Age of Discovery and even beyond." - Richard Middleton, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1: In the Beginning: Myth, Nature, and the Origins of Music
2: The West and the World
3: Between Myth and History, Between Europe and Its Others
4: Music of the Folk
5: Old-Time Religion
6: Music of the Nations
7: Diaspora
8: Colonial Musics, Post-Colonial Worlds, and the Globalization of Worldbeat
Appendix 1Media and Mediation of World Music: A Timeline of Music Technologies
Appendix 2World-Music Resources
Appendix 3Glossary of World-Music Genres
Appendix 4Glossary of Ethnomusicological Terms