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  • Studies on a Global History of Music

    A Balzan Musicology Project

    Edited by Reinhard Strohm ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    The idea of a global history of music may be traced back to the Enlightenment, and today, the question of a conceptual framework for a history of music that pays due attention to global relationships in music is often raised. But how might a historical interpretation of those relationships proceed? How should it position, or justify, itself? What would 'Western music' look like in an account of ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge History of World Music

    Edited by Philip V. Bohlman ...
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    Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly ... Read more

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  • World Literature in Theory

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    Literary Studies in a Global Age

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