| Description |
xx, 159 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Folkloristics |
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Folkloristics.
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| 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [141]-151 |
| Subject |
Folk music -- History and criticism.
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Folk music.
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| Author |
Dundes, Alan.
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| LC no. |
87045401 |
| ISBN |
025320464X |
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0253355559 |
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