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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.
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.
Lawrence Beaumont Shuster is Lecturer in Music Theory at Cornell University.
Somangshu Mukherji is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan.
Noé Dinnerstein is Adjunct Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
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