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World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures. (Book Reviews: Ethnomusicology).(Book Review)
World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures. By Peter Fletcher, with a Foreword by Laurence Picken. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. [xv, 734 P. ISBN 0-19-816636-2. $150.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
This large and substantially illustrated book attempts to survey the world's major musical cultures in both their distant and recent past, and to some extent, in their manifestations in the present. It is a brave effort. There are few works that have tried to carry Out this ambition, and none, to my knowledge, by the pen of a single author. All of the world music surveys that come to mind-most of ...
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