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World Flutelore - Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power (Paperback)
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World Flutelore - Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power (Paperback)
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In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes
are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection,
vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of
human and non-human behavior. This book explores the cultural
significance of flutes, flute playing, and flute players from
around the world as interpreted from folktales, myths, and other
stories--in a word, "flutelore." A scholarly yet readable study,
World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical
Flute Power draws upon a range of sources in folklore,
anthropology, ethnomusicology, and literary analysis. Describing
and interpreting many examples of flutes as they are found in
mythology, poetry, lyrics, and other narrative and literary sources
from around the world, veteran ethnomusicologist Dale Olsen seeks
to determine what is singularly distinct or unique about flutes,
flute playing, and flute players in a global context. He shows how
and why world flutes are important for personal, communal,
religious, spiritual, and secular expression and even, perhaps,
existence. This is a book for students, scholars, and any reader
interested in the cultural power of flutes.
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