POSTMODERNISM – MULTICULTURALISM

SilkRoad Project

Background information about the history of the Silk Road : http://teachers.silkroadproject.org/ See especially Teachers’ Guide.

World pop - Class notes part one

Louise Meintjes.  "Paul Simon's Graceland, South Africa, and the Mediation of Musical Meaning. Ethnomusicology. Vol. 34, no. 1, Winter 1990, 37-73.

Voracious Muse, 155-202

Class notes part two

Others:  Steven Feld, “The Poetics and Politics of Pygmy Pop,” 254-75 

Others, John Corbett, “Experimental Oriental,” 173 

Others:   Simon Frith, “The Discourse of World Music,”  305-320 

Class notes part three

Timothy D. Taylor.  Global Pop, World Music, World Markets,  1-37 

Ronald Byrnside, Charles Hamm, Bruno Nettl. Contemporary Music and Music Cultures. University of Illinois: Prentice‑Hall, 1975.

how Western music has impacted world music.

Post Modernism R R R R R R R R R AH AHWM History

Daugherty and Adams - Class Notes 1  Class Notes 2 Class Notes 3

Interview: Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said discuss parallels between music and culture NPR December 28, 2002

JEREMY EICHLER. Standing the Whole World on Its Ear.” New York Times (January 22, 2006)

KRONOS - Class Notes

 Kevin Volans

Voracious Muse: Volans, 14-29; Individual, 53-55; African reactions 56-57; Hegemony and Post-Modernism, 58-62