Comprehensive music research resource. Overviews of geographic regions, surveys of musical heritage, and descriptions of specific genres, practices, and performances.
Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study.
Music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Both the simple folk song and the complex electronic composition belong to the same activity, music.
Available in print in the SAC library, this series of over 20 books explores the musical diversity of world cultures. Titles include the musical traditions of the Caribbean, Mexico, India and China.