Choice Reviews Online· 2012
Music and globalization: critical encounters
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Short summary
This book explores critical encounters between music and globalization, examining how music shapes and is shaped by global flows of culture, capital, and identity.
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Key points
- Examines the interplay between music and globalization across various cultural contexts.
- Investigates themes of creolization, commodification of religious experience, and cultural identity in relation to music.
- Analyzes mediated encounters, including cross-border musical spaces and the Africanization of Afro-Cuban music.
- Discusses imagined encounters and the circulation of music in a globalized 'infosea'.
- Proposes strategies for non-essentialist listening to world music.
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Abstract
Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Globalization through / Bob W. White Part 1. Structured Encounters 1. The Musical Heritage of Slavery: From Creolization to Music / Denis-Constant Martin 2. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: Music and the Commodification of Religious Experience / Steven Feld 3. A Place in the World: Globalization, Music, and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Vanuatu / Philip Hayward 4. Musicality and Environmentalism in the Rediscovery of Eldorado: An Anthropology of the Raoni-Sting Encounter / Rafael Jose de Menezes Bastos Part 2. Mediated Encounters 5. Beautiful Blue: Raramuri Violin in a Cross-Border Space / Daniel Noveck 6. World Producers and the Cuban Frontier / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 7. Trovador of the Black Atlantic: Laba Sosseh and the Africanization of Afro-Cuban / Richard M. Shain Part 3. Imagined Encounters 8. Slave Ship on the Infosea: Contaminating the System of Circulation / Barbara Browning 9. World Today / Timothy D. Taylor 10. The Promise of World Music: Strategies for Non-Essentialist Listening / Bob W. White Index Contributors
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