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The World Music Press volumes generally contain introductory text, notated music, and an accompanying CD with audio examples.
The Global Music series books have more in-depth text, bibliographies, and accompanying CDs.
Children's songs and game songs from Thailand with full cultural context, history, and more.
Includes Vietnamese game songs, love songs, boating songs, recited and sung poetry, and instrumental music.
Nineteen songs from the vocal traditions of the Akan people of Ghana and the Shona of Zimbabwe.
Introduction to Chinese luogo percussion ensembles, the music of parades, street festivals, and religious rituals.
Introduction to Mexico's most popular form of traditional music - mariachi. Includes examples of son, polka, waltz and bolero.
Twenty-four songs and dances representing the music of the Pueblo, Lakota, Kiowa, Nanticoke, Hidatsa, Haliwa-Saponi, Seneca and other peoples.
Sampling of songs and singing games from different cultures on many continents.
Seventeen examples of Cambodian traditional instrumental, vocal and dance music, children's game songs, percussion pieces, and stories.
Thirteen songs with accompanying stories retold from Ugandan folklore.
Seven favorite children's songs from various parts of Italy. Includes a pronunciation guide.
Explores Native American musical heritage and how traditional sounds have developed into increasingly recognizable forms, like Native jazz and rock.
Shows how people in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania create, dance to, and interact with traditional East African music.
A thematic introduction to Korean music, drawing parallels and contrasts between musical customs and their contemporary developments.
Profiles the musical traditions of Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam, placing them within a social, cultural, and historical context.
Uses four themes - colonialism, belief systems, musical flows, and the re/presentation of Pacific cultures - to survey the region's various musical traditions.
Introduction to the diverse musical cultures in Portugal and Spain. Includes interviews with performers, illustrations, accompanying CD, and more.
Centers on the tradition and evolution of Karnatak concert music. Also addresses popular music, regional traditions, and contemporary composition.
Explores how modern styles interact with older, indigenous music to create a continuously evolving musical heritage in southern Peru and Bolivia.
Employs three themes - slavery, creolization, and diaspora - to discuss the region's traditional musical genres and its more contemporary forms.
Discusses how cultural influences like gender, ethnicity, mass media, and westernization are shaping music and the ways we experience it.
How to searchImage: Catalog search set to Subject and Printed Music, and search result showing location and call number.
Here are a few subjects to get you started:
Folk music > United States (Substitute a different country as needed.)
Folk songs
Folk songs, French (Substitute a different language/nationality as needed.)
Music > India (Substitute a different country as needed.)
National songs
World music
You can find even more subjects in individual catalog records. Find one book or recording of your desired country/nationality/ethnicity, then click on a subject to find more materials with that subject:
Includes over 1,200 essays about music from all parts of the world. This is the digital version of the print edition, which is found in the Allen Library reference collection at ML100 G37.
Use these call numbers to find books about world music:
| Call Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| ML198-ML360 | General music history |
| ML200 | United States |
| ML205-ML220 | Canada, Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and Central America |
| ML230-ML239 | South America |
| ML240-ML325 | Europe |
| ML330-ML345 | Asia |
| ML350 | Africa |
| ML360 | Australia, Oceania, etc. |
| ML3544-ML3785 | National/folk music history |
| ML3551-ML3562 | United States |
| ML3563-ML3572 | Canada, Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and Central America |
| ML3575 | South America |
| ML3580-ML3730 | Europe |
| ML3740-ML3758 | Asia |
| ML3760 | Africa |
| ML3770 | Australia, Oceania, etc. |
| ML3776 | Jewish |
Ethnomusicology by 
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by Browse the reference shelves by call number:
| Call Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| ML100-ML102 | Music dictionaries & encyclopedias |
| ML120 | Bibliographies A-Z by country, e.g. |
| ML120 A25 | Africa |
| ML120 U5 | United States |
| ML128 | Bibliographies A-Z by topic, e.g. |
| ML128 E8 | Ethnomusicology |
| ML128 F74, F75 | Folk music and songs |
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