The Globalization of Music in History

ISBN-13: 9780415874755 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 210 str.

Richard Wetzel

Opis

This volume contextualises a globalisation 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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Out of Africa: The First Time  3. Rivers, Oceans, Emperors, and Music  4. Singing Popes, Monks, and Pilgrims  5. Troubadours and Crusaders  6. Out of Africa, One More Time! Jazz  7. Traveling with the Feminine Muse  8. War, Religion, Race and Music  9. Technology and Music  10. Stars from the East  Epilogue

O autorze

Richard D. Wetzel is Professor of Music History and Literature and Chair of Graduate Studies in the School of Music of Ohio University. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Pittsburgh where he studied under Denes Bartha, Theodore Finney and Robert Snow. Wetzel also studied with Roland Leich, Nicolai Lopatnikoff and Robert Newell (composition) and Joseph Esposito (piano), and holds active memberships in ASCAP, The American Musicological Society; The Society for American Music.