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(More customer reviews)I was working on a paper dealing with folk music and this is truly the best book on the subject that I found! It is an excellent review of the history of ethnomusiclogy as well as of the evolution of various folk music styles. It also provides some interesting answers in the area of comparative musicology. No other book can compare in the scope that is covered here. It is highly readable even for people who have no knowledge of the subject matter!
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The aim of this study is to increase understanding of folk music within an historical, European framework, and to show the genre as a dynamic and changing art form. The book addresses a plethora of questions through its detailed examination of a wide range of music from vastly different national and cultural identities. It attempts to elucidate the connections between, and the varying development of, the music of peoples throughout Europe, firstly by examining the ways in which scholars of different ideological and artistic ambitions have collected, studied and performed folk music, then by investigating the relationship between folk and popular music.
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