Music: A Social Experience - Hardback

• Dismisses traditional, chronological format designed around European western canon to meets needs of today’s ethnically diverse students, who identify their heritage as Asian, African, or Central American rather than European• Builds on a series of chapter-long theme-oriented narratives such as ethnicity, gender, spirituality, love, technology, that interweave the musical “here and now”• Focuses on how music creates and reflects social meaning in a variety of cultures and time periods.• Leads the student from music or ideas with which they are familiar to music that is unfamiliar, always through the connecting thread of the original social concept.