Trends in World Music Analysis

<p>This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis seek to break down barriers and build bridges between scholarly disciplines musical repertoires and cultural traditions. Covering a wide range of genres styles and performers the chapters bring to bear a variety of methodologies including indigenous theoretical perspectives Western music theory and interdisciplinary techniques rooted in the cognitive and computational sciences.</p><p>With contributors addressing music traditions from Africa Asia Europe and the Americas this volume captures the many current directions in the analysis of world music offering a state of the fi eld and demonstrating the expansion of possibilities created by this area of research.</p>