Philip V. Bohlamn is Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of several books, including Jewish Music and Modernity and Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Ritual, and Religion, coedited with Jeffers Engelhardt.
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The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from en... SEE MORE