Table of Contents

1. Popular Musics and Globalization 2. "Nothin' but the Same Old Story": Old Hegemonies, New Musics 3. Strategies of Resistance 4. A Music of One's Own 5. Strategic Inauthenticity 6. Anglo-Asian Self-Fashioning 7. Toward a More Perfect Union: Cross-Cultural Collaborations 8. Conclusions: We Are the World, and the World Is Us

About the Author

Timothy D. Taylor is Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University.

Reviews

"...bound to become a key text in its field..." -- Popular Music
"...Timothy Taylor opens up many new perspectives...in this excellent study. ...this is a valuable addition to a growing literature." -- RPM
"Global Pob has much to offer readers interested in the evolution of the world-music market and raises important questions about ethnographic method." -- Notes
"Finally, an easily digestible yet academically sound tome that gathers up and explains this sprawling popular phenomenon called world music. Timothy D. Taylor. . . takes the right approach from the get-go." -- Dirty LinenMagazine
"[An] erudite exploration of the philosophies behind the fastest growing music market." -- Shift
"Tim Taylor's Global Pop presents detailed and dazzling original interpretations of popular music from the four corners of the globe." -- George Lipsitz, University ofCalifornia, San Diego

"...bound to become a key text in its field..." -- Popular Music
"...Timothy Taylor opens up many new perspectives...in this excellent study. ...this is a valuable addition to a growing literature." -- RPM
"Global Pob has much to offer readers interested in the evolution of the world-music market and raises important questions about ethnographic method." -- Notes
"Finally, an easily digestible yet academically sound tome that gathers up and explains this sprawling popular phenomenon called world music. Timothy D. Taylor. . . takes the right approach from the get-go." -- Dirty LinenMagazine
"[An] erudite exploration of the philosophies behind the fastest growing music market." -- Shift
"Tim Taylor's Global Pop presents detailed and dazzling original interpretations of popular music from the four corners of the globe." -- George Lipsitz, University ofCalifornia, San Diego