# Music - Its Language, History, and Culture

- By: Douglas Cohen
- Publisher: CUNY Brooklyn College
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Music/Ethnomusicology/Music_-_Its_Language_History_and_Culture_(Cohen))
- Licence: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Music/Ethnomusicology/Music_-_Its_Language_History_and_Culture_(Cohen)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/human-51167/pdf

This text is designed to introduce students to works representative of a variety of music traditions including the repertoires of Western Europe from the Middle Ages through the present; of the United States, including art music, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater; and from at least two non-Western world areas (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent).