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This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert, secular, popular and religious music. Integral to the process have been political, economic, military, and religious forces that motivated or compelled performers to travel, often far beyond the borders of their homelands, to practice their art and craft. That this music was often a traveling companion to non-musical movements--military campaigns, religious missions, political events -does not make the distance it traveled, nor its cultural and social impact, less remarkable.

The Globalization of Music in History contributes to a growing awareness of the power of music to give insight into those things that all cultures and civilizations hold in common, and that promote and nurture mankind's most noble virtues. The book adds a philosophical perspective to ongoing work in ethnomusicology, musicology, music therapy, and what may be an evolving global music. It attributes this evolution to the motivation by musicians to travel and to spread music around the globe, and even into outer space. It also provides connectivity between the people, activities and events in which music is used and the means by which it moves from one place to another.

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In recent years, globalization has become a primary concern to music scholars, and to the broader music audience, since the development of mass media has made it increasingly possible to convey all kinds of music around the world. Wetzel (Ohio Univ.) approaches the concept of globalization with a broad sense of time. Investigating widespread evidence of musical globalization in a variety of contexts in music history, he starts with the concept of music's origin in non-European locations and early musical cognitive language and musical notation in European classical musical traditions. Wetzel shows that globalization of music can be explained by the context of music in human history--through such circumstances as war, religion, race, gender, technology, and so on. He does not define the concept of globalization, but rather looks at a large number of exemplary events in music history that provide the opportunity to rethink what "globalization" might be. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. S. Yoon Kent State University

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Richard D. Wetzel is Professor of Music History and Literature and Chair of Graduate Studies in the School of Music of Ohio University. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Pittsburgh where he studied under Denes Bartha, Theodore Finney and Robert Snow. Wetzel also studied with Roland Leich, Nicolai Lopatnikoff and Robert Newell (composition) and Joseph Esposito (piano), and holds active memberships in ASCAP, The American Musicological Society; The Society for American Music.