World Music
A Global Journey
by Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari
5th Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780367423155 |
| eText ISBN | 9781000203882 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 5th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 538 |
Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari authored World Music: A Global Journey, 5th Edition as a foundational textbook for students and instructors in higher education music programs. The text establishes core concepts in ethnomusicology, directing attention toward aural analysis and the broader cultural context surrounding musical traditions worldwide.
The volume organizes its exploration of global musical expression geographically across seven continents. The chapters outline musical practices in Oceania, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, before shifting to traditions found across the Middle East, Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Additional sections examine sound styles within the Caribbean, South America, Mexico, and North America.
To aid in structural listening, the textbook incorporates a Musical Markers feature that explicitly summarizes key musical elements for each audio example. This design gives students a structured approach to identifying sonic characteristics across traditions, aligning with the primary instructional goals of introductory world music courses.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Before the Trip Begins: Fundamental Issues
- • What is Music?
- • Music: Universal Language or Culturally Specific Activity?
- • Be Conscious of Labels
- • An Inside Look: Terence Liu
- • An Inside Look: Phong T. Nguyen
- • Knowing the World’s Musics
- • The Life of an Ethnomusicologist
- • Representation: What Musics Does One Study?
- • Resources for the Study of the World’s Musics
- • Reference Works
- • Video
- • Audio Recordings
- • Journals
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 2: Aural Analysis: Listening to the World’s Musics
- • How to Listen to World Music
- • “Talking” about Music
- • Timbre and Medium
- • Vocal Timbre
- • Instrumental Timbre
- • Aerophones: Flutes, Reeds, and Trumpets
- • Chordophones: Lutes and Zithers
- • Idiophones: Plucked, Struck, and Shaken
- • Membranophones
- • Summary
- • Pitch
- • Tuning System
- • Scale
- • Interval
- • Range
- • Melody
- • Melodic Contour
- • Ornamentation
- • Text Setting
- • Rhythm
- • Beat and Tempo
- • Accent and Meter
- • Rhythmic Density
- • Phonic Structure
- • Dynamics
- • An Inside Look: Patricia Shehan Campbell
- • Form
- • Musical Markers
- • Need to Know: Fundamentals of Music
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 3: Cultural Considerations: Beyond the Sounds Themselves
- • Cultural Knowledge
- • An Inside Look: Judith Becker
- • Value Systems and Hierarchies
- • Music and Identity
- • Use versus Function
- • Music and Spirituality
- • Music and Ethics
- • Music and the Environment
- • New Theoretical Perspectives
- • Music Technologies and Media
- • Music and the Arts
- • Transmission and Pedagogy
- • Notation Systems and the Creation of Music
- • Exchange and Adaptation
- • Cultural Intersections
- • A Case Study of Istanbul, Turkey: A Lesson in Geography, History, Religions, and Musical Exchange
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 4: Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, Hawai’i, Kiribati
- • Background Preparation
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • Arrival: Australia
- • Site 1: Australian Aboriginal Song with Didjeridu
- • Arrival: Papua New Guinea
- • Site 2: Susap (lamellophone) from Papua New Guinea
- • Explore More: Singsings of Papua New Guinea
- • Arrival: Hawai’i
- • An Inside Look: Amy Ku’uleialoha Stillman
- • Explore More: Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Ukulele
- • Site 3: Hawaiian Drum-Dance Chant
- • Dance: Tongan Dance
- • Arrival: Kiribati
- • Site 4: Group Song for bino (sitting dance) from Kiribati
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 5: South Asia: India, Pakistan
- • Background Preparation
- • An Inside Look: K. S. Resmi
- • An Inside Look: Vivek Virani
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • Arrival: North India
- • Site 1: Hindustani (Instrumental) Raga
- • Need to Know: Fundamentals of Indian Classical (Hindustani) Music
- • Arrival: South India
- • Site 2: Carnatic Classical (Vocal) Kriti
- • Explore More: Kathakali
- • Site 3: Hindu Bhajan Devotional Song
- • Explore More: Indian Filmi Git (Film Song)
- • Arrival: Pakistan
- • Site 4: Qawwali (Sufi Devotional Song)
- • Explore More: Bhangra
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 6: Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Northeast Thailand, Indonesia (Java and Bali)
- • Background Preparation
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • An Inside Look: Sumarsam
- • Arrival: Vietnam
- • Site 1: Vietnamese Central Highlands Bronze Gong Ensemble
- • Site 2: Nhac Tai Tu Amateur Chamber Music
- • Arrival: Thailand
- • An Inside Look: Priwan Nanongkham
- • Site 3: Classical Piphat Ensemble
- • Dance: Thai Classical Dance
- • Arrival: Laos and Northeast Thailand
- • Explore More: The Ramayana
- • Site 4: Lam Klawn Repartee Singing
- • Site 5: Luk Thung Popular Song
- • Arrival: Indonesia (Java and Bali)
- • Site 6: Javanese Court Gamelan
- • Site 7: Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar
- • Explore More: Kecak: The Balinese “Monkey Chant”
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 7: East Asia: China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Tibet
- • Background Preparation
- • An Inside Look: Luo Qin
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • Arrival: China
- • Site 1: The Guqin (Seven-String “Ancient” Zither)
- • Site 2: Jiangnan Sizhu (“Silk and Bamboo”) Ensemble from Shanghai
- • Site 3: Beijing Opera (Jingju)
- • Site 4: Chuida Wind and Percussion Ensemble from Quanzhou, Fujian, China
- • Arrival: Mongolia
- • Explore More: Popular Music in East Asia
- • Site 5: Mongolian Urtyn Duu (Long Song) with Khöömi (Overtone or “Throat” Singing)
- • Arrival: Korea
- • Site 6: P’ansori Narrative
- • An Inside Look: Chaneung Park
- • Arrival: Japan
- • Site 7: Gagaku Court Music
- • Site 8: Kabuki Theater
- • Explore More: Komuso
- • Dance: Japanese Music and Dance
- • Arrival: Tibet
- • Explore More: Taiko
- • Site 9: Tibetan Buddhist Ritual
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 8: The Middle East: Islam and the Arab World, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Israel
- • Background Preparation
- • An Inside Look: George Dimitri Sawa
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • Arrival: Islam and the Arab World
- • Site 1: Islamic Adhan, “Call to Prayer”
- • Site 2: Arabic Taqasim for Ud and Buzuq
- • Arrival: Iran
- • Site 3: Dastgah for Santur and Voice
- • Arrival: Egypt
- • Site 4: Takht Instrumental Ensemble
- • Arrival: Turkey
- • Site 5: Sufi Dhikr Ceremony of the Turkish Mevlevi Order
- • Arrival: Israel
- • Site 6: Shofar and Jewish Liturgical Cantillation
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 9: Europe: Greece, Spain, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, Hungary, Georgia
- • Background Preparation
- • “Classical” versus “Folk”
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • Arrival: Greece
- • Site 1: Greek Orthodox (Byzantine) Chant
- • Arrival: Spain
- • Site 2: Flamenco
- • Dance: Flamenco Dance
- • Arrival: Russia
- • An Inside Look: Oleg Kruglyakov
- • Site 3: Balalaika Ensemble
- • Arrival: Scotland
- • Site 4: Highland Bagpipes
- • An Inside Look: Mick Moloney
- • An Inside Look: Walter Mahovlich
- • Arrival: Ireland
- • Site 5: Uilleann Bagpipes
- • Arrival: Hungary
- • Site 6: Tekerölant (Hurdy Gurdy)
- • Arrival: Georgia
- • Explore More: Slovenian Polka
- • Site 7: Georgian Choral Singing
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 10: Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Nigeria, Central Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Senegal, South Africa
- • Background Preparation
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • An Inside Look: Adesanya Adeyeye
- • An Inside Look: Habib Iddrisu
- • Arrival: Ghana
- • Site 1: Polyrhythmic Recreational Ensemble
- • Dance: West Africa
- • Site 2: “Talking Drums”
- • Arrival: Nigeria
- • Site 3: Jùjú Popular Music
- • Arrival: Central Africa
- • Site 4: Mbuti Pygmy Music from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- • Arrival: Zimbabwe
- • Site 5: Mbira Dza Vadzimu
- • Arrival: Uganda
- • Site 6: Akadinda
- • Arrival: Senegal–Gambia
- • Site 7: Jali with Kora
- • Arrival: South Africa
- • Site 8: Mbube
- • Explore More: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 11: The Caribbean: Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Cuba, The Dominican Republic
- • Background Preparation
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • Arrival: Haiti
- • Site 1: Vodou Ritual from Haiti
- • Arrival: Jamaica
- • Site 2: Reggae
- • Arrival: Trinidad and Tobago
- • Site 3: Calypso
- • Site 4: Steel Band (Pan)
- • Explore More: Soca
- • An Inside Look: Olivia Ahyoung
- • An Inside Look: Mia Gormandy
- • Arrival: Puerto Rico
- • Site 5: Puerto Rican Plena
- • Arrival: Cuba
- • Site 6: Cuban Son
- • Dance: Caribbean—Trinidad, Haiti, Latin America
- • Arrival: The Dominican Republic
- • Site 7: Merengue
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 12: South America and Mexico: The Amazon Rainforest, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico
- • Background Preparation
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • An Inside Look: Martin Pereira Algarita
- • Arrival: The Amazon Rainforest
- • Site 1: Amazonian Chant
- • Arrival: Peru
- • Site 2: Sikuri (Panpipe) Ensemble
- • Arrival: Argentina
- • Site 3: Tango
- • Arrival: Brazil
- • Site 4: Samba
- • Explore More: Carnival
- • Site 5: Capoeira Music
- • Arrival: Mexico
- • An Inside Look: Gilbert Velez
- • Site 6: Mariachi
- • Questions to Consider
Chapter 13: North America: Canada and the United States
- • Background Preparation
- • Planning the Itinerary
- • Arrival: Canada
- • An Inside Look: Natalie MacMaster
- • Site 1: Cape Breton Fiddling
- • Arrival: The United States of America
- • Site 2: Ballad-Singing
- • Site 3: Old Regular Baptist Lined Hymn
- • An Inside Look: Hugh McGraw
- • Site 4: Singing School Shape-Note Music
- • Dance: American Folk & Square Dance
- • Site 5: Bluegrass
- • Site 6: African-American Spiritual
- • Site 7: African-American Gospel Choir
- • Site 8: Country Blues
- • Site 9: “Nuyorican” Salsa
- • Dance: Ballroom Dance
- • Site 10: Cajun Music
- • Arrival: Native American Reservations
- • Site 11: Plains Indian Dance Song
- • Site 12: Native American Flute
- • Explore More: Inuit Throat-Singing
- • Questions to Consider
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