Preface 19
About This Book: An Introduction for Students 30
Part I 40
Chapter 1. What, in the World, Is Music? 40
Chapter 2. How Music Lives: A Musicultural Approach 48
Chapter 3. How Music Works, Part I: Rhythm 74
Chapter 4. How Music Works, Part II: Pitch 86
Chapter 5. How Music Works, Part III: Dynamics, Timbre, and Instruments 98
Chapter 6. How Music Works, Part IV: Texture and Form 116
Part II 126
Chapter .7 Indonesian Gamelan Music: Interlocking Rhythms, Interlocking Worlds 126
Chapter 8. From Raga to Bollywood: Developments and Intercultural Crossings in Indian Music 158
Chapter 9. "Not the Same, but Just as Nice": Traditions and Transformations in Irish Music 202
Chapter 10. The River and the Path: Conversation and Collective Expression in West African Musics 238
Chapter 11. From the Blues to Beyoncé: Black Music Aesthetics and a History of African American Song 272
Chapter 12. "We Don’t Play Sauce": Latin American Musics from Guaguancó to Latin Trap 320
Chapter 13. Story Songs: Indigenous Traditions and Transformations in Alaska Native Music and Dance 376
Chapter 14. From Baladi to Belly Dance: Rhythm, Dance, and Music in Egypt and Beyond 414
Chapter 15. A Musicultural History of the Chinese Zheng 458
Glossary 498
References Cited in the Text 510

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