The Folk - Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Ross Cole
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-38374-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Music > Folk music Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-38374-5
Barcode:	9780520383746

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