Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music

by Michael Tenzer and John Roeder

Book Overview

Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music presents intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from diverse cultures across the world. All the authors are experts, deeply engaged in the traditions they describe. They recount the contexts in which the music is created and performed, and then hone in on elucidating how the music works as sound in process. Accompanying the explanatory prose is a wealth of diagrams, transcriptions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195384571
• ISBN13: 9780195384574
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"