Thirty Years of World Music

Authors

  • Timothy D Taylor University of California

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v1i2.26062

Keywords:

world music, globalization, neoliberalism

Abstract

This article tracks major developments in world music since the inception of the term in the late 1980s, situating the rise and continued currency of world music as an effect of the most recent phase of globalization in the West, which itself is part of the neoliberal capitalism of the past few decades.

Author Biography

  • Timothy D Taylor, University of California

    Timothy D. Taylor is a professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of many books and articles, most recently, Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present, to be published later this year by the University of Chicago Press.

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Published

2015-03-04

Issue

Section

World Music

How to Cite

Taylor, T. D. (2015). Thirty Years of World Music. Journal of World Popular Music, 1(2), 192-200. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v1i2.26062

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