Aleysia K. Whitmore is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver. Her research focuses on the world music industry, globalization, and cultural policy. She has published articles in Ethnomusicology and MusiCultures, and she has taught popular music, world music, and classical music courses at Brown University, Boston College, the University of Miami, and the University of Colorado Denver. She holds a BMus from the University of Toronto and AM and PhD degrees in ethnomusicology from Brown University.

"Whitmore has crafted a compelling ethnographic account of how industry, musicians, and audiences encounter each other in systems of the contested "world music" genre... Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." -- T. F. DeFrantz, Duke University, CHOICE

"This book is a confident step in a great direction, and contributes to a conversation that needs to be had, especially by those who engage with the world music industry." -- Charlotte Algar, Songlines

"Aleysia Whitmore's outstanding book provides a rich ethnography of the contemporary world-music industry. She aptly weighs perspectives from musicians, industry professionals, audiences, and scholars to analyze topics ranging from the complexities of collaboration to recent trends of online music." -- Marc Gidal, Ramapo College of New Jersey

"This elegantly written book goes beyond the fractious debates in the academic community about "world" music. Instead, it provides a lively discussion of how contemporary African musicians, industry professionals and "western" audiences negotiate the fraught complexities of transnational cultural production." -- Richard M. Shain, Thomas Jefferson University

"Empirically rigorous, analytically ambitious, and thoughtfully constructed, World Music and the Black Atlantic sets a high bar for the study of cosmopolitan music cultures in the postcolonial world. A landmark study in current ethnomusicology." -- Ryan Skinner, Associate Professor, Music and African American & African Studies, The Ohio State University

"Whitmore's analysis describes a new ethos untethered from simple oppositions between locals and cosmopolitans. For those wondering what happened to "world music," Whitmore's fine-grained ethnography looks at the emergence of "genre culture" and declares that world music is back, and it's here to stay." -- Bob White, Université de Montréal