Whitmore's analysis describes a new ethos untethered from simple oppositions between locals and cosmopolitans. For those wondering what happened to "world music," Whitmore's fine-grained ethnography looks at the emergence of "genre culture" and declares that world music is back, and it's here to stay.
Aleysia K. Whitmore is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver. Her research focuses on the world music industry, globalization, and cultural policy. She has published articles in Ethnomusicology and MusiCultures, and she has taught popular music, world music, and classical music courses at Brown University, Boston College, the University of Miami, and the University of Colorado Denver. She holds a BMus from the University of Toronto and AM and PhD degrees in ethnomusicology from Brown University.