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Author Miller, Terry E. E

Title World Music : a Global Journey
Edition 3rd ed
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (616 pages)
Contents Front Cover; World Music; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Scope; Organization; The Third Edition; Listening Guides; Structure of Each Listening Guide; How Instructors Can Expand Course Coverage; Website; Our Own Journey (Thus Far); Terry E. Miller; Andrew Shahriari; Acknowledgments; 1. Before the Trip Begins: Fundamental Issues; What is Music?; Music: Universal Language or Culturally Specific Activity?; Beware of Labels; An Inside Look: Gerhard Kubik; Knowing the World's Musics; The Life of an Ethnomusicologist; Representation: What Musics Does One Study?
Resources for the Study of the World's MusicsReference Works; Video; Audio Recordings; Journals; Questions to Consider; On Your Own Time; 2. Aural Analysis: Listening to the World's Musics; How to Listen to World Music; "Talking" about Music; Timbre and Medium; Vocal Timbre; Instrumental Timbre; Aerophones: Flutes, Reeds, and Trumpets; Chordophones: Lutes and Zithers; Idiophones: Plucked, Struck, and Shaken; Membranophones; Summary; Pitch; Tuning System; Scale; Interval; Range; Melody; Melodic Contour; Ornamentation; Text Setting; Rhythm; Beat and Tempo; Accent and Meter; Rhythmic Density
Phonic StructureDynamics; Form; An Inside Look: Bruno Nettl; Need to Know: Fundamentals of Music; Questions to Consider; On Your Own Time; 3. Cultural Considerations: Beyond the Sounds Themselves; Cultural Knowledge; An Inside Look: Judith Becker; Value Systems and Hierarchies; Music and Identity; Use versus Function; Music and Spirituality; Music and Ethics; Music and the Environment; New Theoretical Perspectives; Music Technologies and Media; Music and the Arts; Transmission and Pedagogy; Notation Systems and the Creation of Music; Exchange and Adaptation; Cultural Intersections
A Case Study of Istanbul, Turkey: A Lesson in Geography, History, Religions, and Musical ExchangeQuestions to Consider; On Your Own Time; 4. Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, Kiribati; Background Preparation; Planning the Itinerary; Arrival: Australia; Site 1: Australian Aboriginal Song with Didjeridu; Arrival: Papua New Guinea; Site 2: Susap (lamellophone) from Papua New Guinea; Explore More: Singsings of Papua New Guinea; Arrival: Hawaii; An Inside Look: Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman; Explore More: Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Ukulele; Site 3: Hawaiian Drum-Dance Chant
Arrival: KiribatiSite 4: Group Song for bino (sitting dance) from Kiribati; Questions to Consider; On Your Own Time; 5. South Asia: India, Pakistan; Background Preparation; An Inside Look: Shanti Raghavan; An Inside Look: Aashish Khan; Planning the Itinerary; Arrival: North India; Site 1: Hindustani (Instrumental) Raga; Need to Know: Fundamentals of Indian Classical (Hindustani) Music; Arrival: South India; Site 2: Carnatic Classical (Vocal) Kriti; Explore More: Kathakali; Site 3: Hindu Bhajan Devotional Song; Explore More: Indian Filmi Git (Film Song); Arrival: Pakistan
Summary Authors Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari take students around the world to experience the diversity of musical expression. World Music: A Global Journey, now in its third edition, is known for its breadth in surveying the world's major cultures in a systematic study of world music within a strong pedagogical framework. As one prepares for any travel, each chapter starts with background preparation, reviewing the historical, cultural, and musical overview of the region. Visits to multiple 'sites' within a region provide in-depth studies of varied musical traditions. Music
Notes Site 4: Qawwali (Sufi Devotional Song)
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Author Shahriari, Andrew
ISBN 9780203152980
0203152980
9781136241727
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