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Bob W. White's Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters (Tracking PDF

By Bob W. White

ISBN-10: 0253223652

ISBN-13: 9780253223654

ISBN-10: 0253357128

ISBN-13: 9780253357120

"World song" emerged as a advertisement and musical classification within the Eighties, yet in a few feel song has constantly been worldwide. throughout the metaphor of encounters, tune and Globalization explores the dynamics that allow or prevent cross-cultural communique via tune. within the tales informed via the participants, we meet famous avid gamers reminiscent of David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Ry Cooder, Fela Kuti, and Gilberto Gil, but additionally lesser-known characters comparable to the Senegalese Afro-Cuban singer Laba Sosseh and Raramuri mess around gamers from northwest Mexico. This assortment demonstrates that cautious historic and ethnographic research of worldwide tune can express us how globalization operates and what, if whatever, we as shoppers need to do with it.

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