Making music in the Polish Tatras : tourists, ethnographers, and mountain musicians / Timothy J. Cooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooley, Timothy J., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland)--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland)--Social life and customs.

Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland).

Ethnomusicology.

Folk music--Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland).

Ethnic music recordings--Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland).

Ethnic music recordings--Slovakia.

Ethnic music recordings--Poland.

Local Subjects:

Ethnic music recordings--Tatra Mountains (Slovakia and Poland).

Ethnic music recordings--Slovakia.

Ethnic music recordings--Poland.

Physical Description:

xvii, 293 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005]

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 lively 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-274) and index.

Contents and performers for the compact disc, with brief notes on the recording of some works on p. [279]-281.

ISBN:

0253344891

OCLC:

55797751