Winner of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (USA)
"An excellent supplementary text for courses dealing with
non-Western music. Manuel provides a good balance of social and
cultural background with specific musical examples. This book will
be recommended reading for all of my survey courses in
ethnomusicology."--Michael Largey, Michigan State University
"Comes a lot closer than any reasonable person could have hoped to
getting the scoop on an enormous, fragmented, and recondite
subject....What you already know he gets right; what you don't know
amazes you....Because he's gathered his facts so intelligently and
presented them so clearly, he's always readable and often
fascinating. You don't have to kid yourself into enjoying all these
alien genres to love their stories....Anybody with a yen to expound
on the
dehumanizing depredations of the culture industry should be forced
to read this book. And so should anybody who believes the world is
one big global village after all."--Robert Christgau, The
Village
Voice
"Certainly the most useful text I know of for leading pop music
aficionados into an engagement with musics of the world."--Andrew
Buchman, Evergreen State College
"It would be difficult to imagine a more ambitious and timely piece
of ethnomusicological scholarship than Manuel's engaging and
sympathetic overview....The text is thoroughly documented with
reliable, contemporary references; the glossary is a valuable
reference tool in itself."--Choice
"Given the amount of ground covered, this...book is surprisingly
readable, while its Notes, Glossary and Bibliography together
provide an invaluable resource to those who wish to study specific
musics....Certainly ought to be in the hands of all those involved
in music education."--Music Teacher
"An excellent supplementary text for courses dealing with
non-Western music. Manuel provides a good balance of social and
cultural background with specific musical examples. This book will
be recommended reading for all of my survey courses in
ethnomusicology."--Michael Largey, Michigan State University
"Comes a lot closer than any reasonable person could have hoped to
getting the scoop on an enormous, fragmented, and recondite
subject....What you already know he gets right; what you don't know
amazes you....Because he's gathered his facts so intelligently and
presented them so clearly, he's always readable and often
fascinating. You don't have to kid yourself into enjoying all these
alien genres to love their stories....Anybody with a yen to expound
on the
dehumanizing depredations of the culture industry should be forced
to read this book. And so should anybody who believes the world is
one big global village after all."--Robert Christgau, The
Village
Voice
"Certainly the most useful text I know of for leading pop music
aficionados into an engagement with musics of the world."--Andrew
Buchman, Evergreen State College
"It would be difficult to imagine a more ambitious and timely piece
of ethnomusicological scholarship than Manuel's engaging and
sympathetic overview....The text is thoroughly documented with
reliable, contemporary references; the glossary is a valuable
reference tool in itself."--Choice
"Given the amount of ground covered, this...book is surprisingly
readable, while its Notes, Glossary and Bibliography together
provide an invaluable resource to those who wish to study specific
musics....Certainly ought to be in the hands of all those involved
in music education."--Music Teacher
"This is a most useful book, covering an immense amount of ground
surefootedly, and I commend it to anyone interested in the nature
of popular music, and the processes that give rise to its existence
and forms around the world."--Blues & Rhythm
"An excellent book....A source of both information and
inspiration."--Musician
"Excellent!"--Max H. Brandt, University of Pittsburgh
"Excellent, thought-provoking, and comprehensive."--John Myers,
Simon's Rock College
"A much needed addition to the sparse but growing literature in
this area of study....Sure to make significant contributions to our
understanding of the process of musical change."--Notes
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