Highlights
The second edition of World Music: A Global Journey introduces students to the diversity of musical expression around the world. It takes the reader across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit.
- Over 300 color maps and photographs of instruments, performers, and cultural settings
- Two CDs with 70 diverse audio tracks, organized geographically with detailed discussion in the text
- Full analysis of each audio track, with CD icon tagged to the text
- Sidebars describing key figures in ethnomusicology
- Full glossary of terms
- Classroom tested
- Logical, easy-to-follow structure, organized by geography
- End of chapter questions to promote discussion
- Accessible level of discussion, assumes no prior musical background
- Listening Guides for each musical example
- Biographical vignettes of performers and ethnomusicologists