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The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bohlman, Philip V.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Indiana University Press 1988
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bohlman examines folk music as a genre of folklore from a broadly cross-cultural perspective. His study espouses a more expansive view of folk music, a view stressing the vitality of folk music in non-Western cultures as well as Western, in the present as well as the past. A wide range of examples-especially from the Middle East and American ethnic communities-illustrates the sheer richness of folk music in the twentieth century. A reconsideration of the folk musician as an agent of creativity underscores the book's assertion that folk music is not a disappearing genre, but rather an expressive behavior intrinsically part of the modern world.
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