The study of folk music in the modern world / Philip V. Bohlman
- Author
- Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-
- Published
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [1988]
- Copyright Date
- ©1988
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 159 pages) : music
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- The origins of folk music, past and present -- Folk music and oral tradition -- Classification : the discursive boundaries of folk music -- The social basis of folk music : a sense of community, a sense of place -- The folk musician -- Folk music in non-western cultures -- Folk music and canon-formation : the creative dialectic between text and context -- Folk music in the modern world.
- Summary
- ""Bohlman examines folk music as a genre of folklore from a broadly cross-cultural perspective and espouses a more expansive view of folk music, stressing its vitality in non-Western cultures as well as Western, in the present as well as the past.""--Publisher's description
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- ISBN
- 9780253055552 (electronic bk.)
0253055555 (electronic bk.)
0585201943 (electronic bk.)
9780585201948 (electronic bk.)
0253355559
025320464X (pbk.)
9780253355553
9780253204646 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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