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Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles.(Book Review)

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Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles. Edited by Ted Solis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. [vii, 322 p. ISBN 0-520-23831-1. $24.95.] Index, bibliography.

World music ensembles can be found in any number of colleges and universities throughout North America. One would thus assume that, given the recent decades of reflexivity in ethnomusicology, that a significant amount of literature would be devoted to the pedagogical and philosophical issues that surround the creation and perpetuation of world music ensembles, especially since much is written on the process of musical transmission. However, the authors ...

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