This text presents intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from diverse cultures across the world. It recounts the contexts in which the musi

Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, Analytical Studies in World Music offers fresh perspectives for thinking about how musical sounds

The first comprehensive and statistically significant analysis of the predictive powers of each cross-cultural model, based on nation-level variables from a ran

Awards: Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018 Certificate of M

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.