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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea

1st Edition

Edited By Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru, J. Lawrence Witzleben
January 17, 2002

This volume explores not only the close ties that link the cultures and musics of East and Northeast Asia, but also the distinctive features that separate them....

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Africa

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Ruth M. Stone
October 07, 1997

Explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years-a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverageemphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions presents the fresh insights and ...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Australia and the Pacific Islands

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia and the Pacific Islands

1st Edition

Edited By J.W. Love, Adrienne Kaeppler
July 09, 1998

In the most comprehensive collection of information ever published on the performing arts of Oceania, 168 scholars in thirty countries and on every continent describe the music of the indigenous peoples of Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia in forty in-depth ...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Europe

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Timothy Rice, James Porter, Chris Goertzen
January 20, 2000

Here in one volume is a comprehensive look at the folk and traditional musics of the European continen - from Ireland to the new republics of Georgia and Belarus. In over seventy articles by sixty-one contributors from around the world, this encyclopedia explores musical life from ...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean

1st Edition

Edited By Dale A. Olsen, Daniel E. Sheehy
November 11, 1998

The Encyclopedia's coverage ranges from the Bahamas to Tierra del Fuego and from Baja California to Uruguay as it describes the extraordinarily rich and varied music of people from all the countries south of the Rio Grande river....

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent

1st Edition

Edited By Alison Arnold
December 23, 1999

In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as ...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music The Middle East

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East

1st Edition

Edited By Virginia Danielson, Dwight Reynolds, Scott Marcus
January 17, 2002

Expert writers present the major traditions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, together with personal accounts of performers, composers, teachers, and ceremonies. A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of dozens of brief snap-shot essays that offer "lifestories" of ...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music The United States and Canada

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The United States and Canada

1st Edition

Edited By Ellen Koskoff
January 18, 2001

This volume makes available the full range of the American/Canadian musical experience, covering-for the first time in print-all major regions, ethnic groups, and traditional and popular contexts. From musical comedy to world beat, from the songs of the Arctic to rap and house music, from Hispanic ...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music The World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools

1st Edition

Edited By Ruth M. Stone
March 28, 2002

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is a ten-volume reference work, organized geographically by continent to represent the musics of the world in nine volumes. The tenth volume houses reference tools and descriptive information about the encyclopedia’s structure, criteria for inclusion and ...

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Volume 4: Southeast Asia

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4: Southeast Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Terry E. Miller, Sean Williams
June 01, 1998

The first complete music reference for the region, this volume covers all the nations of modern Southeast Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in thirty-five articles, written by twenty-seven expert contributors....

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