Reflections: Unity and Diversity in the World’s Music
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Reflections: Unity and Diversity in the World’s Music - The Making of the Musical World |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Andrew Killick; University of Sheffield; United Kingdom |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Music |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | musical universals; diversity; music history; cross-cultural connections |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | world popular music |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | While the story of the world’s music continues to unfold and does not admit of a “conclusion,” we end with some general observations on what we have learned about the big questions of human musicality. Is there, after all, a thing called “music” that we can say is common to all humanity? If there is, why do all human societies seem to need it? What aspects of it are the same or similar in all its manifestations, and how different can it be before it ceases to be music? Do similarities necessarily reflect historical influences, or could different peoples have come up with the same musical ideas independently? Ultimately, why do particular people and groups have the particular forms of music that they do? Such questions may never be answered definitively, but what I hope the story told in this book has shown is that cross-cultural influences in music are nothing new, that “world music” is not just the music of other cultures, and that whatever music we know and love today is in a real sense an outgrowth of all the world’s music. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Sep-2026 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/27335 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.27335 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Making of the Musical World |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
world, contemporary |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |