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Swedish Folk Music in the Twenty-First Century - On the Nature of Tradition in a Folkless Nation (Hardcover, New)
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Swedish Folk Music in the Twenty-First Century - On the Nature of Tradition in a Folkless Nation (Hardcover, New)
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font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; }In applying the term folk
music to the music they were collecting, early nineteenth-century
Swedish folklorists saturated it with the cultural currency of
romantic nationalism. These collectors promoted the music as the
essence of the rural peasant folk, and thus of the nation; the
tradition it represented was ancient, invested with the power of
nature itself. Since that time, folk music has retained its
symbolic value, while at the same time the national romantic
narrative has broken down due to its being politically problematic
as well as factually unsustainable. Research that has been done on
rural peasant music in the intervening years reveals that it was
never particularly ancient nor nationally uniform, nor truly
distinguishable from popular or art musics. Swedish Folk Music in
the Twenty-First Century: On the Nature of Tradition in a Folkless
Nation, by David Kaminsky, examines the struggle of present-day
Swedish folk musicians and dancers to maintain the cultural
currency of their genre while simultaneously challenging the
historical fallacies and ideological agenda upon which that
currency was originally based. The notion of Swedish cultural
purity once championed by nineteenth-century folklorists has been
dismissed by serious scholars and now marks the discourse of the
anti-immigrant extreme right, alienating it from the academic-savvy
center/left-leaning folk music subculture of today. Kaminsky's
study is especially relevant today, given the rise of the
anti-immigrant extreme right in Sweden, and their efforts to
preserve culturally pure Swedish folk music at the expense of
existing multicultural government initiatives.
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