Musics lost and found : song collectors and the life and death of folk tradition / Michael Church.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Church, Michael, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Why it all began p. 15

1 From broadsides to Child ballads: Songs of the British people p. 17

2 Orientalists from France: Jesuit priests in Beijing, Salvador-Daniel in Algiers p. 25

3 Going native in Constantinople: Dimitrie Cantemir, the happy hostage p. 35

The birth of ethnomusicology p. 39

4 The Song of Approach, the Pipes of Friendship: Alice Fletcher and the Omaha Indians p. 41

5 'I am now a true Eskimo': Franz Boas and first principles p. 47

6 Voice of Armenia: The tragedy of Komitas p. 55

7 Britain's folk-song revivals, and the contentious Cecil Sharp p. 63

8 'I in seventh heaven - Perks': The ineffable Percy Grainger p. 79

Carrying the torch: Collectors in Northern and Eastern Europe p. 87

9 'And what does the gentleman want': Béla Bartók as song detective p. 91

10 Girdling the globe: The empire of the Lomaxes p. 107

11 'I am a white-skinned Aranda man': Theodor Strehlow's divided self p. 133

12 The stirring of a thousand bells: Jaap Kunst, Colin McPhee, and gamelan p. 143

13 Hot mint tea and. a few pipes of kif: Paul Bowles in Morocco p. 157

14 A voice for Greece: Domna Samiou's crusade p. 165

15 Things that are made to cry: John Blacking and the Venda p. 169

16 Record companies as collectors: From Folkways to Muziekpublique p. 173

Musical snapshots: The importance of sound archives p. 183

17 Magic in two strings: Central Asia awakes p. 187

18 Red badge of courage: Musicians in Afghanistan p. 205

19 Out of the womb of Russia: Riches awaiting rediscovery p. 213

20 Three-in-one: The Georgian way p. 221

21 Small is beautiful: Pygmy polyphony p. 227

22 It's a physical tiling: A Persian musician relocates the radif p. 235

23 Plucking the winds: Chinese village music today p. 239

24 Voice, handkerchief, fan: New life for Korea's p'ansori p. 247

25 'My whole body was singing': Kodo and the taiko drum p. 251

26 'Intangible cultural heritage': UNESCO's lengthening list p. 257

27 Going, going ...: disappearing musics p. 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2021).

ISBN:

9781800101388

1800101384

Publisher Number:

40030723845

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