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Author Wetzel, Richard D.

Title The globaliztion of music in history / Richard D. Wetzel
Published New York : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (211 pages)
Series Routledge Studies on History and Globalization
Routledge studies on history and globalization.
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- The Origins of Music -- Rivers, Oceans, Emperors, and Music -- Singing Popes, Monks, and Pilgrims -- The Movement of Song: Troubadours and Crusaders -- Out of Africa, One More Time! Jazz -- Traveling with the Feminine Muse in the Twentieth Century -- War, Religion, Race, and Music -- Technology and Music -- Stars from the East -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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
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Subject Music and globalization.
Music -- Political aspects
International relations and culture.
International relations and culture
Music and globalization
Music -- Political aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203802359
0203802357