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World music is a term that covers all music that is not part of mainstream popular music or classical music and has some kind of "ethnic" component. The connotation of the term is popular and folk music from the third world, European popular and folk music that uses influences from the third world, and traditional music especially but not only from the third world. The term is used primarily as a marketing/classificatory device, sometimes referring to any kind of foreign music, especially in a foreign language. Obviously, the various kinds of ethnic music that are included under the rubric "world music" do not have anything in common generically or musically in virtue of which they are called "world music." However, since ever more artists (and the general public) gain access to communication devices, travel becomes easier day by day and sending music through the Internet is now almost a stansard practice, the mutual influence of musicians is now more comprehensive than ever. This trend will extend into the foreseeable future. This has given rise to a phenomenon named cross-over: musicians from everywhere enriching and influencing musicians from everywhere. This is a double-edged sword: whereas creation of original works and crosss-fertilizing are going on at an unprecedented rate, there is also the danger of 'all types of music becoming more or less the same.' The artists'competence should, ideally, be able to ward off the latter phenomenon from happening, although commercial and marketing pressure works against this. www.wikpedia.org

TITLE	AUTHOR	PAGES	FORMAT	PRICE	PURCHASE	BOOK DETAILS
A Continental Hug: Canadian Poetry Set to Chilean Music (Cassette)			TAPE	$7.95
A History of Music in Canada 1534-1914	Kallman. Helmut	317	P	$15.25
A Short History of World Music (used)	Sachs, Curt	400	H	$9.95
A Singing Wind: 5 Melodies from Ecuador	Brennan, Elizabeth	32	P	$16.95
Afro-American Religious Music	Jackson, Irene	210	H	$45.95		Very detailed discography of religious music.
Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature	Baker, Houston	226	P	$12.95
Breakout: Profiles in African Rhythm	Stewart, Gary	157	P	$16.75		Profiles of African Performers. Sonny Okosuns/Kanda Bongo Man/Docteur Nico/Nana Ampadu & more.
Canadian Music in the 1930's and 1940's: Proceedings of a Conference	Not Listed	45	P	$8.95
Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India	Manuel, Peter	302	P	$24.95		Popular music and technology in North India. Sociological impact of cassette technology.
Come to Laugh: African Traditional Theatre in Ghana	Bame, Kwabena	190	P	$14.50		A study of traditional theatre in Ghana including two transcripts/illus./somewhat academic in nature.
Contemporary Canadian Composers	Macmillan, Keith	248	H	$8.50
Coyote Songs: from the Yaqui Bow Leaders Society	Bwikan, Wo'I	40	P	$9.95		An instructional book on African drumming. This information is very rare and this book are great.
Drum Gahu: The Rhythms of West African Drumming	Locke, David	137	H	$21.95		An instructional book on African drumming. This information is very rare and this book are great.
Eight Urban Cultures	Nettl, Bruno	320	H	$28.95		Chapters on Iranian, Ghanese and Indian music are included/musical examples/focus on music in particular cities in developing world.
Flamenco	Schreiner, Claus	176	P	$18.25		History and development of Flamenco and its performers/illustrated.
Folk Songs of Old England	Linscott, Eloise	344	P	$11.95		Huge collection in a handy paperback book format with handy introductions.
From Rice Paddies and Temple Yards: Traditional Music of Vietnam	Nguyen, Phong		TAPE	$7.95		Same style as other World Music Press tapes.
From Rice Paddies and Temple Yards: (Book and Cassette)	Nguyen, Phong	88	P + TAPE	$21.95		Same style as other World Music Press tapes.
Git Along, Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of American West	White, John	221	H	$18.95		Comes with free record LP
Greek Music, Verse and Dance	Georgiades, Thrasyblos	155	H	$29.50		A very small and slim volume.
Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest	Roseman, Marina	233	H	$40.95		Music and medicine among the Temiar/concepts of being & aeshetics.
In Search of Silvestre Revueltas	Garland, Peter	211	P	$24.95
In the Time of Cannibals: Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants	Coplan, David	300	P	$21.95		Oral poetry of Basotho workers who migrate to mines and cities of South Africa. (“Cannibals” are those who live off the migrant labour).
Jamaican Music (used)	Burnett, Michael	48	P	$5.95		History & development of synagogue & folk songs/ numerous musical examples/ songs of Chassidim/ originally published in 1929.
Jewish Music: Its Historical Development	Idelsohn, Abraham	536	P	$16.75		History & development of synagogue & folk songs/ numerous musical examples/ songs of Chassidim/ originally published in 1929.
Jongleur Songs of Old Quebec (used)	Barbeau, Marius	202	H	$11.95
JUJU: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music	Waterman, Christopher	277	P	$22.95		History & development of the juju form of music of the Yoruba of Nigeria. Quite academic but very comprehensive.
Korea Sings Folk and Popular Music and Lyrics	Ha, Tae	126	P	$12.95
Kpegisu: A War Drum of the Ewe	Locke, David	192	P	$23.50		An instructional book on African drumming that comes with a cassette. This information is very rare and this book are great.
Kpegisu: A War Drum of the Ewe (Cassette)	Locke, David		TAPE	$11.95
Learn to Play on Harmonium	Avtar, Ram	42	P	$9.95		.
Learn to Play on Sitar	Avtar, Ram	56	P	$9.95		Real thing from India.
Let Your Voice be Heard: Songs from Ghana and Zimbabwe (Cassette)			TAPE	$7.95		Designed for educators/songs and games. Cassette is one hour.
Lyrical Protest: Black Music's Struggle Against Discrimination	Ellison, Mary	168	H	$38.50
Mercian Hymns	Hill, Geoffrey	40	P	$6.95
Moving Away from Silence: Music of the Peruvian Altiplano	Turino, Thomas	324	P	$24.95		Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the Experience of Urban Migration. Academic nature/some musical examples.
Music and Musical Thought in Early Indian	Rowell, Lewis	409	P	$30.95		The only one of its kind on early Indian music, aesthetics, philosophy/glossary of sanskrit terms and bibliography/scholarly work.
Music and Trance: A Theory of Relations Between Music, Possession	Rouget, Gilbert	395	P	$27.25		Discusses connections between ritual trance & music/large sections on Africa and the Middle East.
Music Grooves	Keil, Charles	402	P	$21.95		Covers issues in media studeis/ethnomusicology/popular culture etc. Broad range of musics.
Music of Latin Americans	Macmillan Publishers	36	P	$13.95		Covers issues in media studeis/ethnomusicology/popular culture etc. Broad range of musics.
Musical Canada	Beckwith, John	369	H	$30.95
Musique Cajun et Musique Noires (used)	Sacre, Robert	40	P	$8.95
Northward Bound: Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad, Song	Sobek, Maria	340	H	$27.95		Examines folk song as historical document/bilingual musical examples.
Popular Songs and Ballada of Han China	Birrell, Anne	226	H	$8.50		Songs from early imperial China (200BC-300AD)
Roots and Branches: Multicultural Music for Children (Cassette)	Campbell, Patricia		TAPE	$7.95		38 songs. Great for kids.
Roots and Branches: Multicultural Music for Children (With CD)	Campbell, Patricia	153	P	$33.95		38 songs and includes illustrations. Great for kids.
Sarangi: Sultan Khan: Savai Gandharva Festival 1992 (VHS)			VHS	$19.75
Silent Temples, Songful Hearts: Music of Cambodia (With Cassette)	Sam, Sam-Ang	144	P	$27.25		Same style as other World Music Press Books.
Sitar Music in Calcutta: An Ethnomusicological Study	Hamilton, James	310	P	$23.50		Illustrated with many musical examples/history &analysis.
Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music	Malm, William	219	H	$41.50		Drum music and making from spiritual perspective/general info on Japanese music also.
Sweet Mother: Modern African Music	Bender, Wolfgang	235	P	$20.50		Modern African music-griot, female singers, African jazz. . .
Teton Sioux Music and Culture	Densmore, Frances	561	P	$23.50
The Ballad Matrix	McCarthy, William	182	H	$23.50		Examines Scottish ballads from 1780-1830.
The Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music	Graham, Ronnie	315	P	$15.25		Country by country guide/bibliography/listing of 3000 recordings.
The Drums of Vodou	Wilcken, Lois	128	P	$23.50		Analysis of this sacred music of Haiti/musical examples/photos.
The Emigrant Experience	Macdonell, Margaret	225	H	$23.50
The Flamenco Guitar	George, Daivd	131	H	$25.95		Imported from Spain. Sections on how to build flamenco guitar/gypsy troubadors.
The Indispensable Harp: Development in Ecuador and Latin America	Schechter, John	288	H	$34.95		Harp music in South and Latin America/history & development/academic/some illustrations and musical examples.
The Land Where 2 Streams Flow: Music in German-Jewish Israel	Bohlman, Philip	257	H	$27.25		Impact of German jews on the music & culture of Israel.
The Life of Music in North India	Neuman, Daniel	296	P	$19.75		North Indian Hindustani music. Some photos.
The Melodic Tradition of Ireland	Cowdery, James	202	H	$24.95		Academic text with numerous musical examples.
The Music of Canada	McGee, Timothy	257	H	$40.95
The Music of the Bauls of Bengal	Capwell, Charles	242	H	$32.50
The Music of the Indians of Northern California	Angulo, Jaime	90	P	$15.95		Music & text/field notes of J de Angulo.
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey	Garvey, Amy	412	P	$18.25
The Texas-Mexican Conjunto	Pena, Manuel	218	P	$15.95		Comprehensive study of this distinctive style of accordion music among Texas-Mexicans/apparently an LP is available.
Three Kilos of Coffee: An Autobiography	Dibango, Manu	146	P	$15.95		Dibango talks about his solitary emigration to France and how he influenced virtually everyone. B&W photos. Interesting story.
Tribal Drums (used)	Hughes, A.	163	P	$3.95
We Who Believe in Freedom (With CD)	Reagon, Bernice	367	H	$29.50
West African Pop Roots	Collins, John	349	P	$23.50		Traces evolution of African music throughout the 20th Century. Covers Manu Dibango, Victor Uwaifo, Fela, Juju, Afro-Disco & more.
When the Earth Was Like New: Western Apache Songs, Stories With CD	Wilson, Chesley	123	P + CD	$34.95
Why is this Country Dancing?	Krich, John	319	H	$11.95
With His Pistol in his Hand	Paredes, Americo	262	P	$12.95		History of the ballad of Gregorio Cortez Lira. Study of Border society and Texas Mexicans.
Zouk: World Music in the West Indies	Guilbault, Jocelyne	279	P	$27.95		Photos/musical examples and CD included.

Afro-American Religious	Cassette Culture	Drum Gahu
Ethnomusicology	Flamenco	Healing Sounds
In Time of Cannibals	Land Where Two Streams Flow	Life of Music in North India
Lyrical Protest	Music and Trance	Northward Bound
Texas-Mexican Conjunto	Three Kilos of Coffee	Why is this Country Dancing

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