The Globalization of Music in History
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The Globalization of Music in History

  1. 198 pages
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The Globalization of Music in History

About this book

This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert, secular, popular and religious music. Integral to the process have been political, economic, military, and religious forces that motivated or compelled performers to travel, often far beyond the borders of their homelands, to practice their art and craft. That this music was often a traveling companion to non-musical movements—military campaigns, religious missions, political events –does not make the distance it traveled, nor its cultural and social impact, less remarkable.


The Globalization of Music in History

contributes to a growing awareness of the power of music to give insight into those things that all cultures and civilizations hold in common, and that promote and nurture mankind's most noble virtues. The book adds a philosophical perspective to ongoing work in ethnomusicology, musicology, music therapy, and what may be an evolving global music. It attributes this evolution to the motivation by musicians to travel and to spread music around the globe, and even into outer space. It also provides connectivity between the people, activities and events in which music is used and the means by which it moves from one place to another.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780415874755
eBook ISBN
9781136626234

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. The Globalization of Music in History
  3. Routledge Studies on History and Globalization
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 The Origins of Music
  10. 3 Rivers, Oceans, Emperors, and Music
  11. 4 Singing Popes, Monks, and Pilgrims
  12. 5 The Movement of Song: Troubadours and Crusaders
  13. 6 Out of Africa, One More Time! Jazz
  14. 7 Traveling with the Feminine Muse in the Twentieth Century
  15. 8 War, Religion, Race, and Music
  16. 9 Technology and Music
  17. 10 Stars from the East
  18. Epilogue
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index