World Music Studies MA - Recommended Reading

General study support

Nettl, Bruno, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts (Urbana, 2005).

Titon, Jeff T., gen. ed., Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World´s Peoples, 5th edition (New York, 2008).

MUS6003 Music of the World

Stock, Jonathan, World Sound Matters: An Anthology of Music from Around the World (London, 1996).

Broughton, Simon, Mark Ellingham and Richard Trillo, eds., The Rough Guide to World Music Vol. 1: Africa and the Middle East, 3rd edition (New York, 2006).

Ellingham, Mark, James McConnachie and Simon Broughton, eds., The Rough Guide to World Music Vol. 2: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific (New York, 2000).

MUS6004 Approaches to Fieldwork

Barz, Gregory F., and Timothy J. Cooley, eds., Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, 2nd edition (New York, 2008).

MUS6005 Case Studies in Ethnomusicology

Berliner, Paul F., The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe (Chicago, 1993).

Blacking, John, How Musical is Man? (Seattle, 1973).
Lortat-Jacob, Bernard, Sardinian Chronicles, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan (Chicago, 1995).

MUS6006 Special Topic in World Music

Campbell, Patricia Shehan, Teaching Music Globally: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (New York, 2004).

Solis, Ted, ed., Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles (Berkeley, 2004).

Stone, Ruth M., ed., The Garland Handbook of African Music (New York, 2000).

Taylor, Timothy D,. Global Pop: World Music, World Markets (New York, 1997).

Wade, Bonnie, Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (New York, 2004).