Folk music : a very short introduction
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Folk music : a very short introduction
（Very short introductions, 257）
Oxford University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index
Further reading: p. 131-135
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
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
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