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Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction [#257]
Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction [#257]
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  • The first short introduction to folk music with global coverage

  
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.

Index: 

List of illustrations
Preface

1. Overview: sound and setting
2. Close-up: songs, strums, and ceremonies
3. Intellectual intervention
4. Collecting and circulating
5. Internal upsurge: movements and stars
6. Folk music today and tomorrow
References
Further reading
Index

About the author: 

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.

"A masterful survey of the many manifestations of folk music in the cultures of the world, by one of America's most eminent and most widely experienced ethnomusicologists. Contemplating the varied sounds of folk music, Slobin explains how it has been perceived, distributed, researched, and exploited, in the world's nations and by scholars past and present."-- Bruno Nettl, author of Nettl's Elephant: On the History of Ethnomusicology
  

"Professor Mark Slobin is one of the leading experts in the world on different aspects of folk music. In this short introduction he presents the world of folk music from a number of expected and unexpected angles. This book is very informative but also provides exciting food for thought."-- Krister Malm, past president, International Council for Traditional Music

Product details

ISBN : 9780195395020

Author: 
Mark Slobin
Pages
160 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Jan 2011
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction [#257]

Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction [#257]

Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction [#257]