PT Journal
AU Marijan, I
   Schmitz, J
TI "From the West to the Rest?" World Music in Transition
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2016
BP 123
EP 131
VL 23
IS 1
DI 10.5507/mo.2016.007
DE Cultural imperialism; globalization; global pop; world music
AB "Melodies, styles, new sounds drifting through the world without respect for borders and act on anyone who hears them, whether they like it or not." (Susanne Binas-Preisendorfer: Klange im Zeitalter ihrer medialen Verfugbarkeit, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2010, 16.). In today's postmodern and globalized world, it is effortless to listen to any kind of music around the world from any place via internet or radio for example. But does this techno-cultural phenomena automatically lead to a cultural (and often called westernized) mainstream?This essay examines how world music is changing under the conditions of a globalized world.
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