It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read World Music: a Very Short Introduction by Philip V. Bohlman
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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 encounters with other cultures, and holds the power to evoke the exotic and give voice to the voiceless. Today, in both sound and material it has a greater presence in human societies than ever before. The politics of which world music are a part - globalization, cosmopolitanism, and nationalism - play an increasingly direct role in societies...
World Music: a Very Short Introduction by Philip V. Bohlman is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read World Music: a Very Short Introduction aloud.
World Music: a Very Short Introduction is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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