Freshman Seminar 33q: Global Pop Music

5. Selected Books

See also section 2 for tips on HOLLIS searching for books - these are just a few introductory titles with useful bibliographies. For more like this try subject or anywhere keyword searches in Hollis on terms such as:

World Music -- History and Criticism
World Music -- Analysis, Appreciation
Popular Music -- History and Criticism
Popular Music -- Latin America
Popular Music -- Social aspects
Popular Culture -- History -- 20th century
Rock Music

Search keywords such as:

Popular culture
Mass media
Cultural theory

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online (Harvard users): Premier reference source in world music! Lengthy, comprehensive articles, with thorough bibliographies and discographies. Leads to many more sources.

The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock
ed by Simon Frith, Will Straw and John Street
Location 1: Loeb Music ML3470 .C36 2001 
Location 2: Widener WID-LC ML3470 .C36 2001

Global Pop : World Music, World Markets
by Timothy D. Taylor
Location 1: Lamont ML3470 .T4 1997
Location 2: Loeb Music Seeger Room ML3470 .T4 1997
Location 3: Tozzer TECH. T 218 g
Location 4: Widener WID-LC ML3470 .T4 1997

Popular Musics of the Non-Western World : an Introductory Survey
by Peter Manuel
Location 1: Lamont ML3470 .M33 1988  
Location 2: Loeb Music Seeger Room ML3470 .M33 1988
Location 3: Tozzer TECH. M 319 p

Songcatchers: In Search of the World’s Music
by Mickey Hart with K.M. Kostyal
Location: Loeb Music ML3545 .H25 2003

Soundscapes : Exploring Music in a Changing World, 2nd Ed.
by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Location: Loeb Music MT90 .S53 2006

World Music : The Rough Guide
edited by Simon Broughton [et al.]
Location 1: Lamont Morse Music & Media ML3545 .W66 1994x
Location 2: Loeb Seeger Room ML102 .W67 1994 [1997 printing] 

Worlds of Music : An Introduction to the Music of the World’s Peoples
edited by Jeff Todd Titon [et al.]
Location 1: Loeb Music Seeger Room ML3545 .W67 2001 (shorter version)
Location 2: Tozzer TECH. W 893 2002 (4th ed)  

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