The Focused, Musicultural Approach takes students deep inside the music and cultural worlds explored, while remaining consistently accessible and manageable in scope; the unique, tradition-and-transformation emphasis allows for integrated coverage of a broad range of musical styles, from traditional folk and classical genres to contemporary world beat, popular, jazz, and experimental musics.
A Globally Inclusive Introduction to the Elements of Music in the opening set of chapters provides students with a friendly and straightforward primer on how music works and how it lives as a phenomenon of human experience, at the same time offering a compelling, whirlwind tour of global musical diversity.
Guided Listening Experiences use narrative descriptions followed by concise, bullet-style Guided Listening Quick Summaries to help students explore how the music they listen to is organized and how key musical elements reflect larger musicultural issues.
Musical Guided Tours, brief, audio-recorded lecture demonstrations featuring performance examples, break down particular styles of music into their constituent parts, then put them back together again piece by piece, helping students develop listening skills that can be productively applied to the Guided Listening Experiences. Transcriptions of each tour appear in the text.
Making Music Exercises give students a hands-on, performance-based perspective from which to understand and interact with the musics they explore.
A 3-CD Set (available separately) that includes over one hundred selections and features some of the world's best-known and most influential musical artists—Ravi Shankar, Tito Puente, The Chieftains, Angélique Kidjo—is carefully integrated with the text, allowing the music to drive the book rather than the other way around.
An Abundance of Illustrative Materials and Pedagogical Aids, including photographs, maps, timelines, visual illustrations, Insights and Perspectives boxed features, pronunciation guidance for foreign terms, key terms lists, student activities, study and discussion questions, and a general glossary, bring the music and text vividly to life and enrich the clarity and enjoyment of the reading and music-listening experience.
The Online Learning Center, including both a Student Edition and an Instructor's Edition, features annotated lists of resources for further study and research, 26 Online Musical Illustrations, audio Musical Guided Tours, an image bank, study aids, Web links, an Instructor's Manual, and many additional features.
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