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• Title:
  Global Music as an Open Concept — A Weitzian Approach to the Meanings of the “Music of the World”
• Creator:
  Milenković, Dušan
• Description:
  In this paper, I argue that there are advantages to understanding “global music” (also known as “world music”) as an open concept, following Morris Weitz’s seminal account on the open-ended nature of art, as well as Theodore Gracyk’s characterization of popular music as an open concept. In the first part of the paper, I delineate prevalent critiques directed towards global music (or world music – I will use both terms interchangeably throughout the paper), which I present by commenting on David Byrne’s well-known article I Hate World Music. Central to my discussion are the two most dominant contentions: purported vagueness in defining the meaning and scope of global music, and its alleged propagation of politically incorrect values by broadly categorizing it as “non-Western music”. By employing a Weitzian approach to open concept strategy, I show that a strict definition of the meaning and scope of global music is not an imperative for a nuanced understanding of it. Furthermore, I contend that the open-ended nature of the concept of global music can help in ruling out the perception that its supposed “non-Westernity” is an “essential property” of the genre.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2024 Dušan Milenković
• Date:
  2025.07.02
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Res Facta Nova. Teksty o muzyce współczesnej; No. 25 (34) (2024); 9-27;
  Res Facta Nova. Teksty o muzyce współczesnej; Nr 25 (34) (2024); 9-27;
  2544-9303;
  1897-824X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/rfn/article/view/49979/40463
• Subject:
  global music;
  world music;
  open concept;
  philosophy of music;
  David Byrne;
  Morris Weitz;
  Theodore Gracyk
• Identifier: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/rfn/article/view/49979
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text