Additional Resources
The following resources are of a general nature, designed to provide an overview of music in our world. For bibliographic information on specific countries, regions, and genres, reference works like The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians provide comprehensive lists. Endnotes for our Class Lessons provide additional bibliographic information. For video and audio recordings, the Internet provides extensive and readily available resources.
Beck, Guy. 2006. Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
Becker, Judith. 2004. Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Bernstein, Arthur, Naoki Sekine, and Dick Wissman. 2007. The Global Music Industry: Three Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
Bohlman, Philip. 2002. World Music: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.
Blacking, John. 1974. How Musical Is Man? Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Broughton, Simon, and others, eds. 2006. The Rough Guide to World Music: Africa & Middle East. London: Rough Guides.
———, and others, eds. 2009. The Rough Guide to World Music: Europe, Asia & Pacific. London: Rough Guides.
Burkholder, J. Peter, Donald Grout, and Claude Palisca. 2014. A History of Western Music. 9th edn. New York: W.W. Norton.
Cook, Nicholas. 2000. Music: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.
Copland, Aaron. 2011. What to Listen For in Music. New York: Penguin Group (Signet Classics).
Dissanayake, Ellen. 200. Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Eliade, Mircea, ed. 1987. The Encyclopedia of Religion. 16 volumes. New York: Macmillan.
Ellingson, Ter. 1987. "Music and Religion." In The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade. Vol. 10. New York: Collier Macmillan, pp. 163[en]172.
Kartomi, Margaret. 1990. On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Larkin, Colin, ed. 2006. Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 4th edn.10 volumes. New York: Oxford University Press.
Levitan, Daniel. 2007. This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. New York: Plume.
Libin, Laurence. 2014. The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 2nd edn. London: Oxford University Press.
Marre, Jeremy, and Hannah Charlton. 1985. Beats of the Heart: Popular Music of the World. Pluto Press. Book accompanying the video series.
McConnach, James, and others, eds. 2000. World Music: The Rough Guide. Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia & Pacific. London: Rough Guides.
Merriam, Alan. 1964. The Anthropology of Music. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
Myers, Helen, ed. 1992. Ethnomusicology: An Introduction. New York: W.W. Norton.
———, and Stanley Sadie. 1992. Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies. New York: W.W. Norton.
Nettl, Bruno. 2005. The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Post, Jennifer. 2011. Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Routledge.
Rice, Timothy. 2013. Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sacks, Oliver. 2008. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Rev. edn. New York: Vintage Books.
Sadie, Stanley, and John Tyrrell, eds. 2004. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 29 volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Seaton, Douglass. 2009. Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Shepherd, John, ed. 2003. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. London and New York: Continuum.
Small, Christopher. 1998. Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Stone, Ruth, and others, eds. 1998-2003. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. 10 vols. New York: Routledge.
Storr, Anthony. 1992. Music and the Mind. New York: Ballantine Books.
Taylor, Timothy. 1997. Global Pop: World Music, World Markets. New York: Routledge.
Turino, Thomas. 2008. Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
———, and James Lea, eds. 2004. Identity and the Arts in Diaspora Communities. Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press.
Wade, Bonnie. 2012. Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Cornerstone publication of the Global Music Series.
Wallin, Nils, and others, eds. 1999. The Origins of Music. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Weiss, Piero, and Richard Taruskin. 2007. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Videos/DVDs/Websites
Exploring the World of Music. 1999. 12-volume instructional video series. Annenberg Foundation. Pacific Street Films and the Educational Film Center.
Folkstreams.net. A national preserve of documentary films about American Roots Cultures. www.folkstreams.net.
Marre, Jeremy, producer/director. 1987. Beats of the Heart. Harcourt Films. 14- video series on world music.
Marre, Jeremy, producer/director. 1997. The Nature of Music. Kultur Video.
Ichikawa, Katsumori, producer. JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance. 2005 [1985 VHS series). 30-volume DVD set. Tokyo: Japanese Video Corporation.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. www.folkways.si.edu/folkways-recordings/smithsonian
UNESCO Multimedia Archives. Intangible Heritage: Arts and Traditions of the World. www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/
Zemp, Hugo, and others, producer. 1990. Musical Instruments of the World. 1990. Le Chant du Monde CD.
Zemp, Hugo, and others, producers. 1996. Voices of the World: An Anthology of Vocal Expression. Le Chant du Monde. 3-CD set.