No-Nonsense Guide to World Music

No-Nonsense Guide to World Music

EnglishEbook
Gray, Louise
New Internationalist
EAN: 9781906523701
Available online
CZK 300
Common price CZK 333
Discount 10%
pc

Detailed information

&quote;World music&quote; is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions.Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, and why. Through chapters that focus on specific areas of music, such as rembetika, fado, trance music, and new folk, Gray explores the genres that have emerged from marginalized communities, music in conflict zones, and music as escapism.In this unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, the author makes the case for music as a powerful tool able to bring individuals together.Louise Gray is a writer and editor whose work on music and performing arts has appeared in the New Internationalist, The Wire, The Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, and Art Review. She co-edited Sound and the City (British Council, 2007), a book exploring the changing soundworld of China.
EAN 9781906523701
ISBN 1906523703
Binding Ebook
Publisher New Internationalist
Publication date June 1, 2009
Pages 144
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Gray, Louise
Series No-Nonsense Guides
Manufacturer information
The manufacturer's contact information is currently not available online, we are working intensively on the axle. If you need information, write us on helpdesk@megabooks.sk, we will be happy to provide it.