Reach across borders for a global sense of music and meaning
Soundscapes offers a fresh approach to world music, with a global framework and case studies that look at music across cultures. The Media Update offers even more tools to support student listening and engage today’s students more effectively with the material.
Features of the Media Update
Helps your students see music as part of the global human experience
Instead of organizing the book region by region, Shelemay offers readers a global approach that highlights the way music traditions move around the world and influence one another.
Close, guided listening helps students build key listening skills
Soundscapes offers a consistent focus on helping students build their listening skills. Students are introduced to musical elements early, and these concepts are reinforced throughout the text in interactive Listening Guides.
New resources to engage students and practice their listening skills
The Media Update offers more resources than ever to engage your students and help them build listening skills, including the new Norton Illumine Ebook with concept check questions and redesigned interactive Listening Guides.
Meet the Author
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University and has taught at Columbia University, NYU, and Wesleyan University. An ethnomusicologist specializing in musics of Africa, the Middle East, and the urban United States, she is the author of numerous articles and books and a former President of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
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