Music and Globalization

"[O]ne of the great strengths of this collection is its ambiguous location of a music often situated rather schematically in a given historical and cultural matrix. Recognition of the political ambiguities makes a welcome shift from some of the more strident positions that have been taken up in public and even scholarly discourse surrounding World Music. . . . The value of this collection extends far beyond World Music."

~Journal of World Popular Music

"[C]ontains many valuable case studies of musical encounters demonstrating the ways music-making both structures and yet provides space for human agency."

~Music & Letters

"Music and Globalization is a responsible interdisciplinary endeavor characterized by the presentation of serious engagements with music and complex ethnography. Most of the authors address critical issues proposed by postcolonial/subaltern theory and critical political economy with notable courage."

~Research in African Literatures

"Music and Globalization productively contributes to over two decades of scholarship in the anthropology of music and in ethnomusicology . . . It is a rich collection and deserves attention from specialists and nonspecialists alike; it will be useful in both graduate and undergraduate curriculums across multiple disciplines (anthropology, ethnomusicology, critical music studies, and media studies)."

~American Ethnologist

"'Music and Globalization' includes stimulating contributions, such as Barbara Browning's discussion of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Gilberto Gil in relation to metaphoric and literal forms of 'infectiousness'; Richard Shain's examination of Laba Sosseh's project of Cubanising African popular music; and Daniel Noveck's pondering of beliefs mediated through the place of the violin in the lives of Ramámuri people in southern Chihuahua.June 2012"

~Julian Cowley, The Wire