MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication. MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication. ROBERT LABAREE is Professor Emeritus, Musicology Department, New England Conservatory, Boston

• Introduction - Michael ChurchThailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam - Terry E. MillerJava - Neil SorrellJapan - David HughesChina - the guqin zither - Frank KouwenhovenChinese opera - Terry E. Miller and Michael ChurchNorth India - Richard WiddessSouth India - Jonathan KatzMande jaliyaa - Roderic KnightNorth American jazz - Scott DeVeauxEurope - Ivan HewettNorth Africa and the eastern Mediterranean: Andalusian music - Dwight ReynoldsThe eastern Arab world - Scott MarcusTurkey - Robert LabareeIran - Ameneh YoussefzadehUzbekistan and Tajikistan - Will SumitsBibliographies

Among its many virtues, Michael Church's 'The Other Classical Musics' can handily serve as a textbook for college and university courses that survey the musical Great Traditions of Eurasia and North Africa, music from the Silk Road lands, and kindred formulations of inter-regional and cross-cultural music studies. The writing, by leading scholars and Church himself, is rigorously evidence-based, yet readily accessible to non-specialist readers.

MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication. MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication. ROBERT LABAREE is Professor Emeritus, Musicology Department, New England Conservatory, Boston

• Introduction - Michael ChurchThailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam - Terry E. MillerJava - Neil SorrellJapan - David HughesChina - the guqin zither - Frank KouwenhovenChinese opera - Terry E. Miller and Michael ChurchNorth India - Richard WiddessSouth India - Jonathan KatzMande jaliyaa - Roderic KnightNorth American jazz - Scott DeVeauxEurope - Ivan HewettNorth Africa and the eastern Mediterranean: Andalusian music - Dwight ReynoldsThe eastern Arab world - Scott MarcusTurkey - Robert LabareeIran - Ameneh YoussefzadehUzbekistan and Tajikistan - Will SumitsBibliographies

Among its many virtues, Michael Church's 'The Other Classical Musics' can handily serve as a textbook for college and university courses that survey the musical Great Traditions of Eurasia and North Africa, music from the Silk Road lands, and kindred formulations of inter-regional and cross-cultural music studies. The writing, by leading scholars and Church himself, is rigorously evidence-based, yet readily accessible to non-specialist readers.

MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication. MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication. ROBERT LABAREE is Professor Emeritus, Musicology Department, New England Conservatory, Boston

• Introduction - Michael ChurchThailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam - Terry E. MillerJava - Neil SorrellJapan - David HughesChina - the guqin zither - Frank KouwenhovenChinese opera - Terry E. Miller and Michael ChurchNorth India - Richard WiddessSouth India - Jonathan KatzMande jaliyaa - Roderic KnightNorth American jazz - Scott DeVeauxEurope - Ivan HewettNorth Africa and the eastern Mediterranean: Andalusian music - Dwight ReynoldsThe eastern Arab world - Scott MarcusTurkey - Robert LabareeIran - Ameneh YoussefzadehUzbekistan and Tajikistan - Will SumitsBibliographies

Among its many virtues, Michael Church's 'The Other Classical Musics' can handily serve as a textbook for college and university courses that survey the musical Great Traditions of Eurasia and North Africa, music from the Silk Road lands, and kindred formulations of inter-regional and cross-cultural music studies. The writing, by leading scholars and Church himself, is rigorously evidence-based, yet readily accessible to non-specialist readers.