Concept: cf. BBC/British Museum's A History of the World in 100 Objects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_World_in_100_Objects, see also http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/about/british-museum-objects/)

Instead of presenting 100 objects, we propose a series of more narrowly-focused publications on music of various places, genres, times, and media. Publications may present and discuss one or more documents, events, ideas, arguments, processes, environments, or systems; or may deliberately cross cultural boundaries to be organized around broad humanistic themes (e.g. Song, Dance, Ritual, Technology, Character, Emotion ...).

Format: HTML5/CSS/Javascript publication including text, image, audio and (minimal) video. Packaged and sold as iOS apps for iPad, Android apps for other tablets, and HTML5 web-apps.

Readership: We aim this series at a "trade book" market: educated, non-expert adults or mature teenagers who are curious about the world and listen to music. Music notation may be included but should not be illustrative rather than crucial as readers are not assumed to be musically literate.

Proposers: You may be a subject expert, a writer who will collaborate with a subject expert, or an editor who will work with author(s) or expert(s) to deliver titles for publication.