A History of European Folk Music
Translation by Linda Schenck and Robert Schenck
Published on 20. July 1997
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-878822-77-2 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of this study is to increase understanding of folk music within an historical, European framework, and to show the genre as a dynamic and changing art form. The book addresses a plethora of questions through its detailed examination of a wide range of music from vastly different national and cultural identities. It attempts to elucidate the connections between, and the varying development of, the music of peoples throughout Europe, firstly by examining the ways in which scholars of different ideological and artistic ambitions have collected, studied and performed folk music, then by investigating the relationship between folk and popular music.
Jan Ling is Professor of Musicology at Goeteborg University, Sweden.
Jan Ling is Professor of Musicology at Goeteborg University, Sweden.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
184 s/w Abbildungen
184 b/w.
Dimensions
Height: 640 mm
Width: 457 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-878822-77-2 (9781878822772)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
What is meant by folk music; the songs of the people; melodies marking the pendulum of life and the changing seasons; the "joik", narrative song and the ballad; the lyric song and the hymn; the playing of folk music - equipment and instruments; folk-music ensembles; movement and dance, song and instrumental music; folk music between town and country.