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World Music: Traditions and Transformations, 2/e

Michael B. Bakan, The Florida State University

ISBN: 0073526649
Copyright year: 2012

Table of Contents



Preface
About This Book: An Introduction for Students

P A R T I
Chapter   1 What, in the World, Is Music?

Chapter   2 How Music Lives: A Musicultural Approach

Chapter   3 How Music Works, Part I: Rhythm

Chapter   4 How Music Works, Part II: Pitch

Chapter   5 How Music Works, Part III: Dynamics, Timbre, and Instruments

Chapter   6 How Music Works, Part IV: Texture and Form

P A R T I I
Chapter   7 Indonesian Gamelan Music: Interlocking Rhythms, Interlocking Worlds

Chapter   8 From Raga to Bollywood: Developments and Intercultural Crossings in Indian Music

Chapter   9 ‘Not the Same, but Just as Nice’: Traditions and Transformations in Irish Music

Chapter 10 The River and the Path: Conversation and Collective Expression in West African Musics

Chapter 11 ‘See How She Moves’: Musics of Latin America and the “Oye Como Va” Phenomenon

Chapter 12 From Baladi to Belly Dance: Rhythm, Dance, and Music in Egypt and Beyond

Chapter 13 A Musicultural History of the Chinese Zheng

Glossary
References Cited in the Text
Credits
Index

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