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During the 1950s and early 1960s musical exotica produced by performers such as Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and Arthur Lyman enjoyed international success. The advent of rock music in the mid-1960s, however, led to the form's demise. A new generation recently has discovered this music and its styles in an ultra-chic nightclub culture that has appeared in urban areas of North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Many of the original recordings have been re-released, drawing the original performers out of retirement. Contributors to Widening the Horizon trace the rise and characteristics of this music and explore its role in cross-cultural communication. Leading popular music scholars examine exotica in terms of key performers and the implications of the production of both Oriental and Occidental exoticisms in the West and elsewhere. Chapters discuss Korla Pandit, Yma Sumac, tropical cool, soy sauce music, and Yanni, as well as many others.

Popular music --- Music --- Exoticism in music. --- History and criticism. --- Effect of multiculturalism on. --- Popular music - History and criticism. --- Music - Effect of multiculturalism on.

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Connecting migration studies and the theory of valuation, this collection offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational music practices. Conceiving music as a practice not confined to audibility, the contributions reveal how music emerges in concrete situations through people, objects, techniques, meanings, and emotions in different parts of the world and during different historic periods. Values are thereby created and shared, and creative processes are evaluated in terms of diversity, space and exchange. This book presents cases of contemporary, popular and traditional music, festivals and trade fairs, albums and band projects, shedding light on the tensions between the transfer, reconstruction and creation of music in different contexts.

Theory of music & musicology --- Evaluation. --- Globalization. --- Interculturalism. --- Migration. --- Music. --- Musicology. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Transnational. --- Music Practices; Migration; Evaluation; Transnational; Music; Globalization; Musicology; Interculturalism; Sociology of Culture --- Music --- Effect of multiculturalism on. --- Social aspects. --- Music and society --- Multiculturalism --- Music Practices --- Migration --- Evaluation --- Transnational --- Globalization --- Musicology --- Interculturalism --- Sociology of Culture