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Gateways to Understanding Music
by Timothy Rice and Dave Wilson
Routledge, 2019


Gateways to Understanding Music is a music appreciation textbook exploring music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, popular music, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, the book's chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of sixty modular "gateways" covers a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens with a guided listening example that unlocks a world of music through careful study of its structural elements. Based on their listening experience, readers are asked to consider how the piece came to be composed or performed, how the piece or performance responded to the social and cultural issues at the time and place of its creation, and what that music means today. Students and other readers learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value all the music they may encounter in their world.

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Academic Articles


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​​Sonic Space-Making on the Margins of Power: Electronic Music, Agency, and Alternative Belonging in the Republic of Macedonia (2011–2014)
Ethnomusicology ​(2022)


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​​The Remembered Future: Macedonian Pop Icon Toše Proeski and Musical Life after Death
Popular Music ​(2022)


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​​A Conflux of Musical Logics: Memory, History and the Improvisative Music of SLANT
Leonardo Music Journal ​(2020)


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​​Not Different Enough: Avoiding Representation as 'Balkan' and the Constrained Appeal of Macedonian Ethno Music
Arts ​(2020)


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​Shaping the Past and Creating the Future: Music, Nationalism, and the Negotiation of Cultural Memory at Macedonia’s Celebration of Twenty Years of Independence
Music & Politics ​(2019)


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Commoning in Sonic Ethnography (or, the Sound of Ethnography to Come)
Commoning Ethnography (2018)


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​"Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Republic of Macedonia"
Co-authored with Velika Stojkova Serafimovska and Ivona Opetčeska Tatarčevska
Yearbook for Traditional Music (2016)

Liner Notes


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Liner notes for SLANT (pfMENTUM, 2019), by Dave Wilson and Richard Valitutto
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Liner notes for On the Face Place by ​CSPS Ensemble (SkyDeck Music, 2016), by Dave Wilson
© Dave Wilson 2022
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