I
am happy to report that we just today received good news from the press
regarding our 2018 book
Music Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a
Digital Age. Here are excerpts from their letter:
Dear David Hebert and Mikolaj Rykowski,
I’m pleased to
say that we are planning to release a paperback version of your book Music
Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a Digital Age (ISBN:
9781527503939).
(...)
Sales of the hardback and academic eBook
versions of Music Glocalization: Heritage and Innovation in a Digital
Age have been quite encouraging, and we believe we now have a good
opportunity to issue a soft cover edition. This is something we do on occasion,
for only about 1 in 10 of our published titles – those we feel might have a
wider appeal. We would like to try a paperback version of your book at a lower
price of £35.99.
This book has indeed sold well and received positive reviews. We are thankful that
Cambridge Scholars has identified the book (which is available now in over 600 libraries plus private collections) as selling within roughly the top
10% of their titles, and the press will soon release an affordable 2021 paperback version.
Below
are quotations from sample reviews:
"One of the major
strengths of
Music Glocalization is that it clarifies and explains the varied literature
circulating around the key word--music glocalization--to broaden our
understanding and analysis of a wide variety of music issues. To summarize,
this is an indispensable book, and I highly recommend Music Globalization for researchers, students, and libraries with a strong
interest in the processes of globalization and localization, musicology,
ethnomusicology, cultural studies, cultural sociology, sociology, and
communication. It will also be of great interest to those in the field of
international, transnational, and cosmopolitan studies." -
Professor Wai-Chung Ho, Hong-Kong Baptist University (Cambridge
Scholars blog).
"In its conception and execution, this volume is a
noteworthy effort to insert the problematic of glocalization into the
disciplines of musicology and ethnomusicology ... The editors' synthesis of the
volume's research is highly original and represents a good point of departure
for thinking further about the uses of glocalization in musicology."
(Victor Roudometof, Ethnomusicology
Review, 2019).
"the first collection on music topics to explicitly deal
with the concept of glocalization . . . new and often original examples of the
how the transnational circulation of ideas, music, and musicians have
contributed--in the 'digital age' as well as in the past--to the relentless, messy process of negotiation and definition of collective and
individual identities." - Notes (Music Library Association,
2020).
Here
is a link for more information about the book:
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-0393-9
Here
is a link for the press:
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/
