Book Review
May. 14th, 2010 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariMusic in Brazil
by John P. Murphy
This is another book in Oxford UP's Global Music Series, which I am finding to be a good way of getting a basic, broad knowledge of various world musics. This book was one of the better books in the series so far, with one sizeable drawback.
My only major criticism was that Murphy did not do a thorough enough job of compiling the accompanying CD. There were several listening exercises in the text that required the reader to search out the relevant examples via the internet. While this wasn't particularly difficult, I strong feel that this kind of textbook should be more self-contained. Web sources can change and go out of date at any time, a problem I ran into a couple of times when finding the necessary pieces.
Otherwise, Music In Brazil was through and engaging. Murphy framed his examination of the music through the idea of national and regional identities. He covered a wide range of traditional and popular music. I was especially pleased with the way he elucidated the melding of traditional forms and styles with international genres like punk, rap, and techno
by John P. Murphy
This is another book in Oxford UP's Global Music Series, which I am finding to be a good way of getting a basic, broad knowledge of various world musics. This book was one of the better books in the series so far, with one sizeable drawback.
My only major criticism was that Murphy did not do a thorough enough job of compiling the accompanying CD. There were several listening exercises in the text that required the reader to search out the relevant examples via the internet. While this wasn't particularly difficult, I strong feel that this kind of textbook should be more self-contained. Web sources can change and go out of date at any time, a problem I ran into a couple of times when finding the necessary pieces.
Otherwise, Music In Brazil was through and engaging. Murphy framed his examination of the music through the idea of national and regional identities. He covered a wide range of traditional and popular music. I was especially pleased with the way he elucidated the melding of traditional forms and styles with international genres like punk, rap, and techno
