The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World
- Author: Bohlman, Philip V.
successfully ties the history and development of folk music scholarship with contemporary concepts, issues, and shifts, and which treats varied folk musics of the world cultures within the rubric... — More…
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Contents
- FOREWORD BY ALAN DUNDES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The Origins of Folk Music, Past and Present
- 2. Folk Music and Oral Tradition
- 3. Classification: The Discursive Boundaries of Folk Music
- 4. The Social Basis of Folk Music: A Sense of Community, A Sense of Place
- 5. The Folk Musician
- 6. Folk Music in Non-Western Cultures
- 7. Folk Music and Canon-Formation: The Creative Dialectic between Text and Context
- 8. Folk Music in the Modern World
- Bibliography
- Index