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1. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   The World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools

   Edited by Ruth M. Stone

   Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   The final volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music includes first-person fieldwork case studies from different regions of the world, a general index to the entire series as well as all the bibliographies, discographies and videographies from the nine regional volumes. It is an...

   Published February 28th 2002 by Routledge
2. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea

   Edited by Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru, J. Lawrence Witzleben

   Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   This volume explores not only the close ties that link the cultures and musics of East and Northeast Asia, but also the distinctive features that separate them....

   Published December 20th 2001 by Routledge
3. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   The Middle East

   Edited by Virginia Danielson, Dwight Reynolds, Scott Marcus

   Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   Expert writers present the major traditions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, together with personal accounts of performers, composers, teachers, and ceremonies. A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of dozens of brief snap-shot essays that offer "lifestories" of...

   Published December 13th 2001 by Routledge
4. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   The United States and Canada

   Edited by Ellen Koskoff

   Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   This volume makes available the full range of the American/Canadian musical experience, covering-for the first time in print-all major regions, ethnic groups, and traditional and popular contexts. From musical comedy to world beat, from the songs of the Arctic to rap and house music, from Hispanic...

   Published December 27th 2000 by Routledge
5. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent

   Edited by Alison Arnold

   Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as ...

   Published October 31st 1999 by Routledge
6. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   Europe

   Edited by Timothy Rice, James Porter, Chris Goertzen

   Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   Here in one volume is a comprehensive look at the folk and traditional musics of the European continen - from Ireland to the new republics of Georgia and Belarus. In over seventy articles by sixty-one contributors from around the world, this encyclopedia explores musical life from...

   Published October 31st 1999 by Routledge
7. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean

   Edited by Dale A. Olsen, Daniel E. Sheehy

   Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   The Encyclopedia's coverage ranges from the Bahamas to Tierra del Fuego and from Baja California to Uruguay as it describes the extraordinarily rich and varied music of people from all the countries south of the Rio Grande river....

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
8. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   Australia and the Pacific Islands

   Edited by J.W. Love, Adrienne Kaeppler

   Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   In the most comprehensive collection of information ever published on the performing arts of Oceania, 168 scholars in thirty countries and on every continent describe the music of the indigenous peoples of Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia in fourty in-depth...

   Published May 31st 1998 by Routledge
9. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   Southeast Asia

   Edited by Terry E. Miller, Sean Williams

   Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

   Published March 31st 1998 by Routledge
10. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

    Africa

    Edited by Ruth M. Stone

    Series: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

    Explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years-a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverageemphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions presents the fresh insights and...

    Published July 31st 1997 by Routledge