
Closely related topics include cosmopolitanism, hybridity, alliance studies, code-switching, and ontologies of sound. The essays coalesce around four main themes: innovative technology, identity formation and self-representation, political activism, and translocal musical exchange. Working from the shared premise that multiple modernities exist for Indigenous peoples, the authors seek to understand contemporary musical expression from Native perspectives and to decolonize the study of Native American/First Nations music. The contributors explore the intersections between music, modernity, and Indigeneity in essays addressing topics that range from hip-hop to powwow, and television soundtracks of Native Classical and experimental music. Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America by Victoria Lindsay Levine Dylan Robinson (Editors) Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States. Numerous resources are posted for students, including streamed audio listening, additional resources (such as links to YouTube videos or websites), a musical fundamentals essay (introducing concepts such as meter, melody, harmony, form, etc.), interactive quizzes, and flashcards.
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A companion website with a new test bank and fully updated instructor's manual is available for instructors. Having available both an area studies and a thematic approach to the materials offers important flexibility to instructors and also provides students with additional means of engaging with the musics of the world. Instructors can use this resource as a primary or secondary path through the materials, either assigning chapters from the textbook and then digging deeper by exploring a chapter from the reader, or starting with a reader chapter and then moving into the musical specifics offered in the textbook chapters. Chapters include the following topics: Music and Ritual Music and Technology Music and Power Music and Space Gender and Sexuality Coloniality/Decoloniality Diaspora, Migration, and Exile and Indigeneity. Each chapter in the reader is designed to introduce students to a theoretical concept or thematic area within ethnomusicology and illustrate its possibilities by pointing to case studies drawn from at least three chapters in Excursions in World Music.

Another major addition to the eighth edition is the publication of a companion reader, entitled Critical Issues in World Music.

General updates have been made to other chapters, replacing visuals and updating charts/statistics. The new eighth edition features six brand new chapters, including chapters on Japan, Sub-Saharan Africa, China and Taiwan, Europe, Maritime Southeast Asia, and Indigenous Peoples. At the same time, the text illustrates the often profound ways through which a deeper exploration of these many different communities can reveal overlaps, shared horizons, and common concerns in spite of, and because of, this very diversity. by Timothy Rommen Bruno Nettl (eds.) Excursions in World Music is a comprehensive introductory textbook to the musics of the world, creating a panoramic experience for students by engaging the many cultures around the globe, and highlighting the sheer diversity to be experienced in the world of music.
