PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Marijan, Ivana
AU  - Schmitz, Julian
TI  - "From the West to the Rest?" World Music in Transition
DP  - 2016 Jun 11
TA  - Musicologica Olomucensia
PG  - 123--131
VI  - 23
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/mo.2016.007
IS  - 27879186
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-Preisendörfer: Klänge im Zeitalter ihrer medialen Verfügbarkeit, 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.