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2. Close-up: songs, strums, and ceremonies
Mark Slobin
in Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘Close-ups: songs, strums, and ceremonies’ uses examples to summarize folk music's structure, style and meaning. Both the Afghan falak and Yiddish song of longing both use four line stanzas ...
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4. Collecting and circulating
Mark Slobin
in Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘Collecting and circulating’ outlines the effects that the recording, collection and cuirculation of folk music had on the genre. Cultures reacted differently to the recording of their ...
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6. Folk music today and tomorrow
Mark Slobin
in Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘Folk music today and tomorrow’ outlines a potential framework for the future of folk music. Folk music operates on a number of circuits, both local and global. This has given rise to a ...
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3. Intellectual intervention
Mark Slobin
in Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘Intellectual Intervention’ explores the reasons why intellectuals and governments get involved with folk music. Modernization radically changed society in Europe and America, leading to a ...
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5. Internal upsurge: movements and stars
Mark Slobin
in Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘Internal upsurge: movements and stars’ describes the formation of folk music movements and the birth of folk music stars. Folk music can organize into and around collective movements, for ...
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1. Overview: sound and setting
Mark Slobin
in Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
‘Overview: sounds and settings’ attempts to place folk music in a broad social context. There is no fixed definition of folk music. Indeed, even the International Folk Music Council have ...
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