Who are "the folk" in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and the US during a crucial period of industrialization from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right. Drawing on a broad, interdisciplinary range of scholarship, The Folk examines the political dimensions of a recurrent longing for folk culture and how it was called upon for radical and reactionary ends at the apex of empire. It follows an insistent set of disputes surrounding the practice of collecting, ideas of racial belonging, nationality, the poetics of nostalgia, and the pre-history of European fascism. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Ross Cole provides us with a biography of a people who exist only as a symptom of the modern imagination, and the archaeology of a landscape directing flows of global populism to this day.

Neil V. Rosenberg met the legendary Bill Monroe at the Brown County Jamboree. Rosenberg's subsequent experiences in Bean Blossom put his feet on the intertwined musical and scholarly paths that made him a preeminent scholar of bluegrass music. Rosenberg's memoir shines a light on the changing bluegrass scene of the early 1960s. Already a fan and aspiring musician, his appetite for banjo music quickly put him on the Jamboree stage. Rosenberg eventually played with Monroe and spent four months managing the Jamboree. Those heights gave him an eyewitness view of nothing less than bluegrass's emergence from the shadow of country music into its own distinct art form. As the likes of Bill Keith and Del McCoury played, Rosenberg watched Monroe begin to share a personal link to the music that tied audiences to its history and his life--and helped turn him into bluegrass's foundational figure. An intimate look at a transformative time, Bluegrass Generation tells the inside story of how an American musical tradition came to be.

Decouvrez la musique folklorique a la flute irlandaise avec ce recueil illustre de chansons issues d'une tradition vivante. Sans connaissance prealable du solfege, vous pouvez immediatement commencer a jouer vos premieres melodies.
Les melodies de ce recueil, et des autres dans la serie, ont ete choisies et arrangees en vue de permettre au debutant d'acceder facilement et rapidement a la musique sans passer par un lourd apprentissage technique. Des tablatures avec les doigtes a la flute sont proposees pour chaque morceau; un CD d'enregistrements audio est aussi disponible et meme conseille afin de favoriser l'apprentissage d'oreille.
Liste des chansons
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Away in a Manger
Boar's Head Carol
Brightest and Best
The Coventry Carol
Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella
The Cherry Tree Carol
Deck the Halls
Ding Dong Merrily On High
The Holly and the Ivy
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
The First Nowell
Good King Wenceslas
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
In Dulci Jubilo
In the Bleak Midwinter
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Jingle Bells
Joy to the World
O Christmas Tree
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Once in Royal David's City
Sans Day Carol
See, Amid the Winter Snow
Silent Night
We Three Kings
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night
La flute irlandaise (tin whistle ou simplement whistle) est une petite flute droite a six trous, qui dans sa forme actuelle date du 19eme siecle. De par son prix abordable et sa facilite de prise en main, c'est l'instrument le plus repandu en Irlande, et est souvent l'instrument de choix pour debutants et pour enfants.
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