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World music emerged as an invention of the west from encounters with other cultures this book draws readers into a remarkable range of these historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless in the course of the volumes eight chapters the reader witnesses musics involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of musics diversity world music is wide-ranging in its geographical scope, yet individual chapters provide in-depth treatments of selected music cultures and regional music histories the book frequently zooms in on repertoires and musicians - such as bob marley, bartok, and nusrat fateh ali khan - and attempts to account for world musics growing presence and popularity at the beginning of the twenty-first century