Musics Lost and Found
Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2021
312 pages
978-1-80010-138-8 (ISBN)
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This book is a piece of serious musicology by a man who has worked as a song collector himself, but his erudition is lightly worn.
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MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication.
MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication.
Content
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Author's note
- Introduction
- Why it all began
- 1 From broadsides to Child ballads
- 2 Orientalists from France
- 3 Going native in Constantinople
- The birth of ethnomusicology
- 4 The Song of Approach, the Pipes of Friendship
- 5 'I am now a true Eskimo'
- 6 Voice of Armenia
- 7 Britain's folk-song revivals, and the contentious Cecil Sharp
- 8 'I in seventh heaven - Perks'
- Carrying the torch
- 9 'And what does the gentleman want'
- 10 Girdling the globe
- 11 'I am a white-skinned Aranda man'
- 12 The stirring of a thousand bells
- 13 Hot mint tea and a few pipes of kif
- 14 A voice for Greece
- 15 Things that are made to cry
- 16 Record companies as collectors
- Musical snapshots
- 18 Red badge of courage
- 19 Out of the womb of Russia
- 20 Three-in-one
- 21 Small is beautiful
- 22 It's a physical thing
- 23 Plucking the winds
- 24 Voice, handkerchief, fan
- 25 'My whole body was singing'
- 26 'Intangible cultural heritage'
- 27 Going, going
- Sources
- Index
