The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

"The editors have made striking efforts, throughout, to provide a framework in which a great diversity of musical practices, repertories, and genres can be considered as part of a more general field."-Martin Stokes, "Journal of the American Musicological Society "The volume's most valuable and striking achievement is the patient and systematic manner in which it presents a bottom-up view of a cultural world that has been relentlessly viewed in top-down ways. The extraordinary vitality of those repertories and practices habitually labeled as "folk" or "traditional" is clear on every page, in terms of the music-making practices and values of most people living in Europe."-Martin Stokes, "Journal of the American Musicological Society "The editors have clearly gone out of their way to make sure that regional scholarly traditions are well represented not only in the bibliographies but in the articles themselves."-Martin Stokes, "Journal of theAmerican Musicological Society "The articles are crisp, authoritative, and amply illustrated with superb photography, useful transcriptions, and well-chosen audio examples in the accompanying compact disc. The bibliographies that accompany each article are particularly valuable."-Martin Stokes, "Journal of the American Musicological Society "Garland's "Europe is an enormous step forward. It addresses a broad range of pan-European issues and the research traditions that have shaped them. It then presents succinct yet broadly conceived articles on archeology, notation and transmission, art music and historicism, ethnoaesthetics, gender, mass mediation, immigration, diasporas, and "world music" in Europe."-Martin Stokes,"Journal of the American Musicological Society