Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age

by Harry Liebersohn

Book Overview

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary globalized musical culture has become ubiquitous and unremarkable, its fascinating origins long predate the internet era. In Music and the New Global Culture, Harry Liebersohn traces the origins of global music to a handful of critical transformations that took place between the mid-nineteenth and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022664927X
• ISBN13: 9780226649276
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"