Trends in World Music Analysis

New Directions in World Music Analysis

Lawrence Beaumont Shuster (Cornell University, USA), Somangshu Mukherji, Noé Dinnerstein

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Routledge
29 January 2024

The Arts: General & Reference; Theory of music & musicology; Music: styles & genres

This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis, seek to break down barriers and build bridges between scholarly disciplines, musical repertoires, and cultural traditions. Covering a wide range of genres, styles, and performers, the chapters bring to bear a variety of methodologies, including indigenous theoretical perspectives, Western music theory, and interdisciplinary techniques rooted in the cognitive and computational sciences.

With contributors addressing music traditions from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this volume captures the many current directions in the analysis of world music, offering a state of the fi eld and demonstrating the expansion of possibilities created by this area of research.

Edited by: Lawrence Beaumont Shuster (Cornell University USA), Somangshu Mukherji, Noé Dinnerstein
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032197340
ISBN 10: 103219734X
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lawrence Beaumont Shuster is Lecturer in Music Theory at Cornell University. Somangshu Mukherji is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan. Noé Dinnerstein is Adjunct Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.