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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 7: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea. Edited by Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru, and J. Lawrence Witzleben. New York: Routledge, 2002. [xxxv, 1,152 p. ISBN 0-824-06041-0. $250.] Compact disc, music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is a ten-volume work covering the musics of the world. The multidisciplinary project was initiated in 1988 and profits from much of the ethnomusicological research undertaken over the last fifty years or so. Volume 7, devoted to East Asia, has 1,152 pages, an accompanying compact disc (thirty-four tracks with explanatory notes), ...

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