Trends in World Music Analysis

This volume brings together a group of analytical essays exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis, seek to break down barriers and build bridges between scholarly disciplines, musical repertoires, and cultural traditions. Covering a wide range of genres, styles, and performers, the chapters bring to bear a variety of methodologies, including indigenous theoretical perspectives, Western music theory, and interdisciplinary techniques rooted in the cognitive and computational sciences. With contributors addressing music traditions from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this volume captures the many current directions in the analysis of world music, offering a state of the field and demonstrating the expansion of possibilities created by this area of research--

• | Author: Lawrence Beaumont Shuster, Somangshu Mukherji, Noé Dinnerstein
• | Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• | Publication Date: Jan 29, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 103219734X
• | ISBN-13: 9781032197340