ABSTRACT
While it is not surprising that Western music aesthetics has overwhelmingly focused on post-Renaissance Euro-American art music, recent decades have seen a growing interest in aesthetic aspects of non-Western music traditions. Ethnomusicological studies of these have enhanced our understanding and appreciation of diverse world musics and their cultural contexts, as well as highlighting ways in which Western music aesthetics is unique and distinctive or, alternately, comprises themes and approaches of broad cross-cultural applicability.
