Some good ideas, but not really relevant to my field, and onlyof the chapters was written by an ethnomusicologist and that was honestly one of the worse, Didn't seem to tell me anything really new, or get me to look at anything new, "World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in thes, but in some sense music has always been global, Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder crosscultural communication through music, In the stories told by the contributors, we meet wellknown players such as David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Ry Cooder, Fela Kuti, and Gilberto Gil, but also lesserknown characters such as the Senegalese AfroCuban singer Laba Sosseh and Raramuri fiddle players from northwest Mexico.
This collection demonstrates that careful historical and ethnographic analysis of global music can show us how globalization operates and what, if anything, we as consumers have to do with it.
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