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Author Cooley, Timothy J., 1962- author.

Title Making music in the Polish Tatras : tourists, ethnographers, and mountain musicians / Timothy J. Cooley
Published Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents Podhale -- Making history -- Making mountain music : a history of ethnography in Podhale -- Village on stage -- Global village -- Village for hire -- Back to the village
Summary "Challenging myths that mountain isolation and ancient folk customs defined the music culture of the Polish Tatras, Timothy J. Cooley shows that intensive contact since the late nineteenth century with tourists and their more academic kin, ethnographers, helped shape both the ethnic group known as Gorale (highlanders) and the music that they perform. Making Music in the Polish Tatras reveals how the historically related practices of tourism and ethnography actually created the very objects of tourist and ethnographic interest in what has become the popular resort region of Zakopane." "This book introduces readers to Gorale musicians, their present-day lives and music making, and how they navigate a regional mountain-defined identity while participating in global music culture. Vivid descriptions of musical performances at weddings, funerals, and festivals and the collaboration of Gorale fiddlers with the Jamaican reggae group Twinkle Brothers are framed by discussions of currently influential theories relating to identity and ethnicity and to anthropological and sociological studies of ritual, tourism, festivals, globalism, and globalization. The book includes a 46-track CD illustrating the rich variety of Gorale music, including examples of its fusion with Jamaican reggae."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Ethnomusicology.
Folk music -- Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland) -- History and criticism
ethnomusicology.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International.
Ethnomusicology
Folk music
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland) -- Social life and customs
Subject Europe -- Tatra Mountains
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004014534
ISBN 9780253002549
0253002540