Gateway to Music: An Introduction to American Vernacular, Western Art, and World Musical Traditions

A fresh, balanced approach that transcends the exclusively classical music focus of most other music appreciation texts.

Gateway to Music: An Introduction to American Vernacular, Western Art, and World Musical Traditions broadens standard notions of music appreciation with an introduction to local and global musical traditions, blended with social, cultural, and historical contexts. It is an ideal text for undergraduate music appreciation courses, a useful sup