recommended literature

QI: An Instrumental Guide to the Chinese Orchestra 
Samuel Wong Shengmiao 
Teng, Singapore
www.thetengcompany.com
ISBN: 981-05-4012-4

Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music
Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalg (eds.)
University of California Press
ISBN 0-520-22-84-6

Cultural Diversity in Music Education: directions and challenges for the 21st century
Australian Academic Press
ISBN 1-875378-59-6
 
Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and representation in world music ensembles
Ted Solís (ed.)
University of California Press
ISBN 0-520-23874-5

Thinking Musically – experiencing music, expressing culture
Bonnie C Wade
Oxford University Press, second edition 2009
Global music series – http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/umbrella/globalmusic/
ISBN 978-0-19-534191-1
 
Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia
William P. Malm
Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-182387-6

The Music of the Arabs
Habib Hassan Touma
Amadeus Press
ISBN 1-57467-081-6
 
Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts
Hea-kyung Um (ed.)
RoutledgeCurzon
ISBN 0-700-71586-X