| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction : lost voices -- Collecting culture : science, technology, & reification -- A geography of the forgotten : vernacular music & modernity's discontents -- Utopian community : nostalgia from Marx to Morris -- Difference & belonging : on the songs of black folk -- Soul through the soil : Cecil Sharp & the spectre of fascism -- Coda : blood sings : a soundtrack for the alt-right |
| Summary |
"Who were 'the folk'? This question has haunted generations of radicals and reactionaries alike. The Folk traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and the US during a crucial period from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right. It follows an insistent set of disputes surrounding the practice of collecting, ideas of racial belonging, the poetics of nostalgia, and the pre-history of European fascism. It is the biography of a people who exist only as a symptom of the modern imagination and the archaeology of a landscape directing the flow of global politics today"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"Roth Family Foundation Imprint in Music" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 17, 2021) |
| Subject |
Folk music -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century
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Folk music -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Folk songs -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century
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Folk songs -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
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MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional
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Folk songs -- Political aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021005204 |
| ISBN |
9780520383753 |
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0520383753 |
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