What in the World is Music? av Alison E. (North Carolina State University USA) Arnold, Jonathan C. (North Carolina State University USA) Kramer

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<p><em>What in the World is Music?</em> Second Edition is an undergraduate, interactive e-textbook that explores the shared ways people engage with music and how humans organize and experience sound. It adopts a global approach, featuring more than 300 streaming videos and 50 streaming audio tracks of music from around the world. Drawing from both musicological and ethnomusicological modes of inquiry, the authors explain the nature and meaning of music as a universal human practice, making no distinction between Western and non-Western repertoires while providing students with strong points of connection to the ways it affects their own lives.</p><p>The <i>What in the World is Music?</i> curriculum is divided into five parts, with a fully integrated multimedia program linked directly to the chapters:</p><ul><li><b>The Foundations of Music I</b> proposes a working definition of "music" and considers inquiry-guided approaches to its study: Why do humans have innate musical perception? Ho