Worlds of Music : An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples (with CD-ROM), Shorter Version
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Book Description
This shorter version of the best-selling WORLDS OF MUSIC is based on the 4th edition and provides much of the authoritative coverage of the comprehensive version in a format that's accessible to students without any background or training in music. Using the case-study approach, the text presents in-depth explorations of music of several cultures from around the world. The authors all ethnomusicologists working in their fields of expertise base their discussions of music-cultures on their own fieldwork and give students a true sense of both the music and culture that created it. General editor, Jeff Todd Titon, has written the text's opening chapter, that introduces students to ethnomusicology and relates each chapter's music heard on the accompanying CDs to the fundamentals of music in a worldwide context. The text concludes with a chapter that invites students to participate by undertaking a fieldwork research project that increases a student's understanding of music in daily life. Two CDs accompany every copy of the book on the inside back cover. The selected recordings cover a wide range of music-cultures and include authentic recordings from the authors' fieldwork. Leading off is the long-standing jewel in the Worlds of Music crown - James Koetting's magnificent recording of postal workers canceling stamps at the University of Ghana post office. A Western-sounding hymn tune performed against African rhythms, this piece, more that any other, lets the student hear contrasting music-cultures. Packaged with the text, the CDs make this book the best value available for the course.
About the Author
Jeff Todd Titon received the Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, where he studied ethnomusicology with Alan Kagan and musicology with Johannes Riedel. The author or editor of seven books, including Early Downhome Blues, which won the ASCAP?Deems Taylor Award, and Powerhouse for God, he is also a documentary photographer and filmmaker. Smithsonian Folkways recently published two CDs from his field recordings of Old Regular Baptists in eastern Kentucky, and he is coeditor of the five-volume American Musical Traditions, a production of Schirmer Books with the Smithsonian Institution, listed by Library Journal among the outstanding reference books of 2002. He developed the ethnomusicology program at Tufts University, where he taught from 1971-1986. From 1990-1995 he served as the editor of Ethnomusicology, the journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology. A Fellow of the American Folklore Society, since 1986 he has been Professor of Music and the director of the Ph.D. program in ethnomusicology at Brown University. Linda Fujie received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Columbia University, where she was a student of Dieter Christensen and Adelaida Schramm. She conducted field research in Japan, mainly concerning urban festival and popular music, under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Columbia University, and Colby College. Her interest in overseas Japanese culture also resulted in research on Japanese-American and Japanese-Brazilian communities, the latter funded by the German Music Council. Her research has been published in the Yearbook for Traditional Music, in publications on popular music, and in Japanese journals. She taught at Colby College as Assistant Professor, at the East Asian Institute of the Free University of Berlin and lectured on ethnomusicology at the University of Bamberg. David Locke received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 1978, where he studied with David McAllester, Mark Slobin, and Gen'ichi Tsuge. At Wesleyan his teachers of traditional African music included Abraham Adzinyah and Freeman Donkor. In Ghana his teachers and research associates included Godwin Agbeli, Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie, and Abubakari Lunna. He has published numerous books and articles on African music and regularly performs the repertories of music and dance about which he writes. He teaches at Tufts University, where he currently serves as the director of the master's degree program in ethnomusicology and as a faculty advisor in the Tufts-in-Ghana Foreign Study Program. He is active in the Society for Ethnomusicology and has served as the president of its Northeast Chapter. David P. McAllester received the Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, where he studied with George Herzog. A student of American Indian music since 1938, he has undertaken fieldwork among the Comanches, Hopis, Apaches, Navajos, Penobscots, and Passamaquoddies. He is the author of such classic works in ethnomusicology as Peyote Music, Enemy Way Music, Myth of the Great Star Chant, and Navajo Blessingway Singer (with coauthor Charlotte Frisbie). He is one of the founders of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and he has served as its president and the editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology. He is professor emeritus of anthropology and music at Wesleyan University. David B. Reck received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, where he studied under Mark Slobin and David P. McAllester. Since 1968 has traveled and worked in India under awards from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Rockefeller and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial foundations, and the JDR IIIrd Fund. A senior disciple of the legendary Ranganayaki Rajagopalan, he is an accomplished musician on the Saraswati veena and has performed extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, and India. His four concerts at the 2002 Madras Festival of Music and Dance were the first by a non-Indian veena player. As a composer, his works have been performed at Tanglewood, Town Hall, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and at various universities and international music festivals. The author of Music of the Whole Earth and a mystery novel, The Cobra's Song, his scholarly publications include articles on Indian music, the Beatles, and cross-influences between the West and the Orient. Currently he is Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations, and of Music, at Amherst College.
Worlds of Music : An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples (with CD-ROM), Shorter Version,Jeff Todd Titon,Linda Fujie,David Locke,David P. McAllester,David B. B. Reck,Wadsworth Publishing,0534627579,Ethnomusicology,Genres & Styles - International,History and criticism,Music,Reference,World music,Music / General
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