Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues

Rating:
Summary: fascinating albeit with self-conscious ideological baggage
Review: This is a very interesting book, fascinating in the places it takes you. Still I think the authors are overly self-conscious, and that gets in the way. They make no bones about being political, even sometimes feel guilty about it. Plus in an effort to avoid Eurocentricism, they have Europhobic blind spots. Too much they are concerned about categorizing about 'uptown' vs. 'downtown' and being partisian about it.

Still, it is a great book to read because of the issues it raises and makes you think about.

And it is great to read about a Papuan New Guineau tribe's encounter with the performance of Nefertiti by the Papuans.