Introduction - Michael Church
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam - Terry E. Miller
Java - Neil Sorrell
Japan - David Hughes
China - the guqin zither - Frank Kouwenhoven
Chinese opera - Terry E. Miller and Michael Church
North India - Richard Widdess
South India - Jonathan Katz
Mande jaliyaa - Roderic Knight
North American jazz - Scott DeVeaux
Europe - Ivan Hewett
North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean: Andalusian music -
Dwight Reynolds
The eastern Arab world - Scott Marcus
Turkey - Robert Labaree
Iran - Ameneh Youssefzadeh
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan - Will Sumits
Bibliographies
MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication. MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication.
Among its many virtues, Michael Church's 'The Other Classical
Musics' can handily serve as a textbook for college and university
courses that survey the musical Great Traditions of Eurasia and
North Africa, music from the Silk Road lands, and kindred
formulations of inter-regional and cross-cultural music studies.
The writing, by leading scholars and Church himself, is rigorously
evidence-based, yet readily accessible to non-specialist
readers.
*Theodore Levin, Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music, Dartmouth
College*
[A] valuable, accessible, and highly recommended book. Attractively
illustrated, it constitutes a manageable and useful compendium
suitable for a variety of reference and educational purposes while
providing an intriguing outline for meaningful conceptual
change.
*ANALYTICAL APPROACHES TO WORLD MUSIC*
This book is a clearly written, attractively illustrated and
inspirational guide.
*LITERARY REVIEW*
Many [...] illuminating essays in this thought-provoking book
*CLASSICAL MUSIC MAGAZINE*
Highly recommended: a great spirit of adventure is enshrined
within.
*CLASSICAL SOURCE*
There is a treasure trove of under-appreciated music out there;
this book will convince many to explore it. And in fewer than
thirty pages it offers as good a summary of the Western canon as
can be found anywhere.
*THE ECONOMIST*
[A] fascinating study of 'classical' music from around the globe .
. .Beautifully produced and laden with colour images. 4 Stars.
*BBC MUSIC*
Whether discussing gamelan or gagaku, these fifteen essays on music
from around the world (gorgeously illustrated with colour
photographs and images) never forget that they are telling human
stories, rooting unfamiliar sounds, words and ideas in narratives
in which we can all find a foothold.
*THE SPECTATOR*
[Michael] Church has orchestrated a truly invaluable volume. Anyone
willing to open mind and ears to 'humanity's most sophisticated
communal achievements in musical creation' will find a sumptuous
treasure-house in this encyclopaedic survey.
*THE INDEPENDENT*
Fascinating. This book is vitally important in broadening our
understanding of the term 'classical music'.
*THE SCOTSMAN*
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