What in the world is music?

by Alison E. Arnold

ISBN: 9781032341491

Published: 2023

This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements: Streaming video Streaming audio tracks Glossary definitions for bolded terms in the text The enhanced eBook package (978-1-032-34149-1) consists of both the enhanced eBook (eBook+) and the corresponding print paperback. To purchase just the eBook+ (978-1-032-43284-7), please select the appropriate format in the dropdown menu before adding the product to your cart. What in the World is Music? Second Edition is an undergraduate, interactive e-textbook that explores the shared ways people engage with music and how humans organize and experience sound. It adopts a global approach, featuring more than 300 streaming videos and 50 streaming audio tracks of music from around the world. Drawing from both musicological and ethnomusicological modes of inquiry, the authors explain the nature and meaning of music as a universal human practice, making no distinction between Western and non-Western repertoires while providing students with...