Global Pop

Global Pop examines the rise of "world musics" and "world beat", and some of the musicians associated with these recent genres such as Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Johnny Clegg. Drawing on a wide range of sources - academic, popular, cyber, interviews, and the music itself - Global Pop charts an accessible path through many of the issues and contradictions surrounding the contemporary movement of people and musics worldwide. (First published in 1997.)

Timothy D. Taylor is Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University.

1. Popular Musics and Globalization  2. "Nothin' but the Same Old Story": Old Hegemonies, New Musics  3. Strategies of Resistance  4. A Music of One's Own  5. Strategic Inauthenticity  6. Anglo-Asian Self-Fashioning  7. Toward a More Perfect Union: Cross-Cultural Collaborations  8. Conclusions: We Are the World, and the World Is Us