"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it." —Bruno Nettl" . . . a praiseworthy combination of solid scholarship, penetrating discussion, and global relevance." —Asian Folklore Studies" . . . successfully ties the history and development of folk music scholarship with contemporary concepts, issues, and shifts, and which treats varied folk musics of the world cultures within the rubric of folklore and ethnomusicology with subtle generalizations making sense to serious minds . . . " —Folklore Forum" . . . [this book] challenges many carefully-nurtured sacred cows. Bohlman has executed an intellectual challenge of major significance by successfully organizing a welter of unruly data and ideas into a single, appropriately complex but coherent, system." —Folk Music JournalBohlman examines folk music as a genre of folklore from a broadly cross-cultural perspective and espouses a more expansive view of folk music, stressing its vitality in non-Western cultures as well as Western, in the present as well as the past.
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Examines folk music as a genre of folklore from a cross-cultural perspective. This work espouses a different view of folk music, stressing its vitality in non-Western cultures as well as Western.
FOREWORD BY ALAN DUNDESACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION1. The Origins of Folk Music, Past and Present2. Folk Music and Oral Tradition3. Classification: The Discursive Boundaries of Folk Music4. The Social Basis of Folk Music: A Sense of Community, A Sense of Place5. The Folk Musician6. Folk Music in Non-Western Cultures7. Folk Music and Canon-Formation: The Creative Dialectic between Text and Context8. Folk Music in the Modern WorldBibliographyIndex
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"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it." Bruno Nettl " ... a praiseworthy combination of solid scholarship, penetrating discussion, and global relevance." Asian Folklore Studies " ... successfully ties the history and development of folk music scholarship with contemporary concepts, issues, and shifts, and which treats varied folk musics of the world cultures within the rubric of folklore and ethnomusicology with subtle generalizations making sense to serious minds ..." Folklore Forum " ... [this book] challenges many carefully-nurtured sacred cows. Bohlman has executed an intellectual challenge of major significance by successfully organizing a welter of unruly data and ideas into a single, appropriately complex but coherent, system." Folk Music Journal
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1988

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ISBN
9780253204646
Publisert
1988-06-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
313 gr
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184

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