RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Marijan, Ivana
A1 Schmitz, Julian
T1 "From the West to the Rest?" World Music in Transition
JF Musicologica Olomucensia
YR 2016
VO 23
IS 1
SP 123
OP 131
DO 10.5507/mo.2016.007
UL https://musicologica.upol.cz/artkey/mus-201601-0007.php
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.