📚 World Music

The label and the musics under it: traditions heard from outside, and the argument about the shelf itself.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject world music in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Music, history, and ideas	Hugo Leichtentritt	1938	31
	World music	Terry E. Miller	2005	27
	Excursions in World Music	Bruno Nettl	1996	14
	Soundscapes	Kay Kaufman Shelemay	2000	13
	Excursions in world music	Bruno Nettl	2007	13
	Worlds of Music	Jeff Todd Titon	1984	12
	Popular World Music	Andrew Shahriari	2010	12
	Multicultural perspectives in music education	Anderson, William M.	1984	7
	Global Minstrels	Elijah Wald	2007	7
	Music, difference, and the residue of race	Jo Haynes	2012	7
	Indian Sun	Oliver Craske	2020	7
	The Garland handbook of African music	Ruth M. Stone	2000	6
	World Music Concise Edition	Terry E. Miller	2014	6
	World Music	Michael B. Bakan	2007	5
	Trends in World Music Analysis	Lawrence Shuster	2021	5
	The Garland handbook of Latin American music	Dale A. Olsen	2000	4
	The drummer's bible	Mick Berry	2003	4
	World Music	Richard Nidel	2004	4
	Global Minstrels	Elijah Wald	2006	4
	Music Around the World	Andrew R. Martin	2020	4
	Songs that changed the world	Wanda Willson Whitman	1969	3
	Worlds of music	Linda Fujie	1992	3
	Exploring the world of music	Dorothea E. Hast	1999	3
	Teaching music globally	Patricia Shehan Campbell	2004	3
	Island Musics	Kevin Dawe	2004	3
	Cambridge History of World Music	Philip V. Bohlman	2008	3
	Analytical and cross-cultural studies in world music	Michael Tenzer	2011	3
	World Music	Joe Boyd	2015	3
	The other classical musics	Michael Church	2015	3
	Swinglines	Fernando Benadon	2023	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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