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World Music

World Music is a curricular category within elementary and general music education that encompasses the study and performance of traditional, folk, and indigenous musical practices from diverse cultural regions outside the Western classical canon, distinguished by its focus on multicultural authenticity, global representation, and contextualized musical learning.

512

Publications

27.1K

Citations

571

Authors

174

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

40

Variants

World Music Traditions

Parents

Children

Publications

512

The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians

Choice Reviews Online · 2001 · 2.6K citations

, , +17

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Susan T. Sommer, William Morris, Virgil Thomson et al. · Notes · 1981 · 1.2K citations

, , +17

Music and the racial imagination

Ronald M. Radano, Philip V. Bohlman · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2000 · 627 citations

, , +14

Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity.

Howard L. Sacks, Richard A. Peterson · Social Forces · 1999 · 483 citations

, , +17

Global Pop: World Music, World Markets

Robin Moore, Timothy D. Taylor · Notes · 1998 · 403 citations

, , +17

1–5 of 512

Authors

571

  1. PV
    Philip V. Bohlman

    University of Chicago, United States

    9 publications · 976 citations

    9

    h-index

  2. PM
    Peter Manuel

    The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States

    7 publications · 188 citations

    7

    h-index

  3. BN
    Bruno Nettl

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    7 publications · 282 citations

    7

    h-index

  4. JT
    Jeff Todd Tıton

    John Brown University, United States

    5 publications · 200 citations

    5

    h-index

  5. RA
    Richard A. Peterson

    Vanderbilt University, United States

    5 publications · 645 citations

    5

    h-index

1–5 of 571

Institutions

174

  1. SOAS University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    397 citations

  2. University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    303 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    68 citations

  4. Perfect Harmony Health

    Austin, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    289 citations

  5. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    161 citations

  6. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Barcelona, Spain

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    86 citations

  7. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    44 citations

  8. Griffith University

    Brisbane, Australia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    76 citations

1–8 of 174

Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 78 publications · 7.3K citations

    39

    h-index

  2. Ethnomusicology

    27 publications · 1.1K citations

    20

    h-index

  3. Notes

    29 publications · 2.8K citations

    19

    h-index

  4. Ethnomusicology Forum

    16 publications · 593 citations

    14

    h-index

  5. American Music

    16 publications · 533 citations

    13

    h-index

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