Presents a discussion of the key issues relating to globalization. The contributors are concerned that local and regional music cultures face an unprecedented onslaught from transnational industries and their ever-increasing production of cultural goods for global distribution.

They also discuss dissemination through migration and communities of interest, and the ideological and political use of different kinds of music. In addition, the book offers itself as an aid to future research in its presentation of theoretical models and methodologies for analyzing the globalization of music.

Part 1 Structures and strategies of the transnational music and media industry: global strategies and local markets - explaining Swedish music export success, Robert Burnett
the corporate strategies of the major record labels and the international imperative, Keith Negus
one planet - one music? MTV and globalization, Keith Roe and Gust de Meyer. Part 2 Beyond the transnational music industry - the global use and abuse of popular music: sampling the didjeridu, Susanne Binas
race, ethnicity and the production of Latin/o popular music, Deborah Pacini Hernandez
popular music in ex-Yugoslavia between global participation and provincial seclusion, Alenka Barber Kersovan
globalization - localization, homogenization - diversification and other discordant trends - a challenge to music policy makers, Krister Malm
music policy between safeguarding and chauvinism, Alfred Smudits. Part 3 Approaches and methods - popular music research between "production of culture" and "anthropology": up and down the music world - an anthropology of globalization, Joana Breidenbach and Ina Zukrigl
globalization and communalization of music in the production perspective, Richard A. Peterson
measurements of globalization - some remarks on sources and indicators, Andreas Gebesmair
Hubert von Goisern's Austrian folk rock - how to analyze musical genre?, Harald Huber.