World Music Textbook, a collaborative open educational resource
The World Music Textbook is a new collaborative effort to create a free and broadly accessible resource for the general public, educators, students, and researchers alike. Its open collections of scholarly, peer-reviewed writing and multimedia materials focus on increasing access to underrepresented voices, writing styles, and audiences, all with undergraduate students and a broad readership in mind. We have a post in the News section with some detail about our tech stack, which is all based on free/free tier services. One of the big goals is to make something reproducible in a way that…
World Music Textbook, a collaborative open educational resource launched on June 23, 2023 with 7 votes, #1,793 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
An online and open resource for teaching and learning ethnomusicology and musicology
The World Music Textbook is a new collaborative effort to create a free and broadly accessible resource for the general public, educators, students, and researchers alike. Its open collections of scholarly, peer-reviewed writing and multimedia materials focus on increasing access to underrepresented voices, writing styles, and audiences, all with undergraduate students and a broad readership in mind. Following the path of a sacred musical practice into the public sphere, this chapter explores the relationships between regional identity, nationalism, and the media. This chapter explores early 20th century efforts to distance the banjo from its African American roots to meet the demands of a…from worldmusictextbook.org
In the maker’s words, at launch
The World Music Textbook is a new collaborative effort to create a free and broadly accessible resource for the general public, educators, students, and researchers alike. Its open collections of scholarly, peer-reviewed writing and multimedia materials focus on increasing access to underrepresented voices, writing…
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