Folk Music

A Very Short Introduction

Mark Slobin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-539502-0 (ISBN)

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This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe. Written by award-winning ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin this is the first compact introduction to folk music that offers a truly global perspective. Slobin offers an extraordinarily generous portrait of folk music, one that embraces a Russian wedding near the Arctic Circle, a group song in a small rainforest village in Brazil, and an Uzbek dance tune in Afghanistan. He looks in detail at three poignant songs from three widely separated regions--northern Afghanistan, Jewish Eastern Europe, and the Anglo-American world--with musical notation and lyrics included. He goes on to sketch out the turbulent times of folk music today and tomorrow, confronting new possibilities, frameworks, and challenges.

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Mark Slobin is Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, a two-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, and former president of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

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Preface

1. Overview: Sound and Setting

2. Close-up: Songs, Strums, and Ceremonies

3. Intellectual Intervention: Scholars and Bureaucrats

4. Collecting and Circulating: Recording and Distributing

5. Internal Upsurge: Movements and Stars

6. Folk Music Today and Tomorrow

References

Further reading

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.2.2011
Reihe/Serie	Very Short Introductions
Zusatzinfo	9 black and white halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 112 mm
Gewicht	136 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-19-539502-6 / 0195395026
ISBN-13	978-0-19-539502-0 / 9780195395020
Zustand	Neuware