Book Review
Dec. 19th, 2010 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariMusic in the Andes
by Thomas Turino
This volume in the Global Music Series was more anthropological than the others I've read so far: Turino spends more time on the social and cultural milieu and meaning of the music than he does on analysis of the music. This was fortunate for me, as my personal tastes do not favor Andean music, but I found the cultural and social aspects of it absolutely fascinating. Turino also does a terrific job of exploring the way music helps to form identity and community. The final chapter is a really interesting essay on the relationship of commercial world music to the indigenous traditions it draws on.
by Thomas Turino
This volume in the Global Music Series was more anthropological than the others I've read so far: Turino spends more time on the social and cultural milieu and meaning of the music than he does on analysis of the music. This was fortunate for me, as my personal tastes do not favor Andean music, but I found the cultural and social aspects of it absolutely fascinating. Turino also does a terrific job of exploring the way music helps to form identity and community. The final chapter is a really interesting essay on the relationship of commercial world music to the indigenous traditions it draws on.
