Foreword: Beyond the Borders of World Music

Foreword: Beyond the Borders of World Music Philip V. Bohlman Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music University of Chicago President of the Society of Ethnomusicology, 2005–2007 The expressive force that joined music to voice in song lived in the ear of the people, on the lips and in the harp of the living singer. It sang of history, daily events, secrets, and miracles—of the very signs of humanity. It was the flower of the uniqueness of every people, its…