Table of Contents

Introduction - Michael Church
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam - Terry E. Miller
Java - Neil Sorrell
Japan - David Hughes
China - the guqin zither - Frank Kouwenhoven
Chinese opera - Terry E. Miller and Michael Church
North India - Richard Widdess
South India - Jonathan Katz
Mande jaliyaa - Roderic Knight
North American jazz - Scott DeVeaux
Europe - Ivan Hewett
North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean: Andalusian music - Dwight Reynolds
The eastern Arab world - Scott Marcus
Turkey - Robert Labaree
Iran - Ameneh Youssefzadeh
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan - Will Sumits
Bibliographies

About the Author

MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication. MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication.

Reviews

Among its many virtues, Michael Church's 'The Other Classical Musics' can handily serve as a textbook for college and university courses that survey the musical Great Traditions of Eurasia and North Africa, music from the Silk Road lands, and kindred formulations of inter-regional and cross-cultural music studies. The writing, by leading scholars and Church himself, is rigorously evidence-based, yet readily accessible to non-specialist readers.
*Theodore Levin, Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music, Dartmouth College*

[A] valuable, accessible, and highly recommended book. Attractively illustrated, it constitutes a manageable and useful compendium suitable for a variety of reference and educational purposes while providing an intriguing outline for meaningful conceptual change.
*ANALYTICAL APPROACHES TO WORLD MUSIC*

This book is a clearly written, attractively illustrated and inspirational guide.
*LITERARY REVIEW*

Many [...] illuminating essays in this thought-provoking book
*CLASSICAL MUSIC MAGAZINE*

Highly recommended: a great spirit of adventure is enshrined within.
*CLASSICAL SOURCE*

There is a treasure trove of under-appreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. And in fewer than thirty pages it offers as good a summary of the Western canon as can be found anywhere.
*THE ECONOMIST*

[A] fascinating study of 'classical' music from around the globe . . .Beautifully produced and laden with colour images. 4 Stars.
*BBC MUSIC*

Whether discussing gamelan or gagaku, these fifteen essays on music from around the world (gorgeously illustrated with colour photographs and images) never forget that they are telling human stories, rooting unfamiliar sounds, words and ideas in narratives in which we can all find a foothold.
*THE SPECTATOR*

[Michael] Church has orchestrated a truly invaluable volume. Anyone willing to open mind and ears to 'humanity's most sophisticated communal achievements in musical creation' will find a sumptuous treasure-house in this encyclopaedic survey.
*THE INDEPENDENT*

Fascinating. This book is vitally important in broadening our understanding of the term 'classical music'.
*THE SCOTSMAN*