Folk Songs and Material Culture in Medieval Europe
Folk Songs and Material Culture in Medieval Europe

Author: Nancy Elizabeth Van Deusen

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782503541327

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This book takes a unique approach to the study of folk music in Central Europe. Through an analysis of this cultural tradition, and of how words and ideas that were first introduced in Latin Antiquity became increasingly cultivated, refined, and established in the centuries that followed, the volume also questions present-day studies of sound and its organization into the field of so-called 'folk music'. In so doing, it breaks down boundaries that separate historical studies from ethnomusicology, and sheds light on what music continues to mean in daily life. While the focus is primarily on Central European folk music, and in particular on material found in the Hungarian archives, the approach taken here also points to a fruitful comparative methodology that could be employed on a larger scale, enabling scholars to consider broader chronological and geographical contexts.

Romancing the Folk
Romancing the Folk

Author: Benjamin Filene

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780807848623

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In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo

A History of European Folk Music
A History of European Folk Music

Author: Jan Ling

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781878822772

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The aim of this study is to increase understanding of folk music within an historical, European framework, and to show the genre as a dynamic and changing art form. The book addresses a plethora of questions through its detailed examination of a wide range of music from vastly different national and cultural identities. It attempts to elucidate the connections between, and the varying development of, the music of peoples throughout Europe, firstly by examining the ways in which scholars of different ideological and artistic ambitions have collected, studied and performed folk music, then by investigating the relationship between folk and popular music. Jan Ling is Professor of Musicology at Göteborg University, Sweden.

Objects, Environment, and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe. Environmental and Artefact Based Approaches to Dwelling in Town and Country
Objects, Environment, and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe. Environmental and Artefact Based Approaches to Dwelling in Town and Country

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Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9782503562049

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This volume presents Europe-wide perspectives on urban life in medieval Europe through the study of artefacts and environmental remains. 0Artefacts and environmental remains are abundant from archaeological excavations across Europe, but until now they have most commonly been used to accompany broader narratives built on historical sources and studies of topography and buildings, rather than being studied as important evidence in their own right. The papers in this volume aim to redress the balance by taking an environmental and artefact-based approach to life in medieval Europe.00The contributions included here address central themes such as urban identities, the nature of towns and their relationship with their hinterlands, provisioning processes, and the role of ritual and religion in everyday life. Case studies from across Europe encourage a comparative approach between town and country, and provide a pan-European perspective to current debates.00The volume is divided into four key parts: an exploration of the processes of provisioning; an assessment of the dynamics of urban population; an examination of domestic life; and a discussion of the status quaestionis and future potential of urban environmental archaeology. Together, these sections make a significant contribution to medieval archaeology and offer new and unique insights into the conditions of everyday life in medieval Europe.

Material Cultures of Music Notation
Material Cultures of Music Notation

Author: Floris Schuiling

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-16

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1000581209

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Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore a fundamental question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural context? Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from musicology, media studies, performance studies, and more, the chapters in this volume offer a wide array of new perspectives that foreground the materiality of music notation. From digital scores to the transmission of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, the volume deliberately disrupts boundaries of discipline, historical period, genre, and tradition, by approaching notation's materiality through four key interrelated themes: knowledge, the body, social relations, and technology. Together, the chapters capture vital new work in an essential emerging area of scholarship.

The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World
The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World

Author: Philip V. Bohlman

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1988-06-22

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780253112606

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"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it." -- Bruno Nettl "... a praiseworthy combination of solid scholarship, penetrating discussion, and global relevance." -- Asian Folklore Studies "... successfully ties the history and development of folk music scholarship with contemporary concepts, issues, and shifts, and which treats varied folk musics of the world cultures within the rubric of folklore and ethnomusicology with subtle generalizations making sense to serious minds... " -- Folklore Forum "... [this book] challenges many carefully-nurtured sacred cows. Bohlman has executed an intellectual challenge of major significance by successfully organizing a welter of unruly data and ideas into a single, appropriately complex but coherent, system." -- Folk Music Journal Bohlman examines folk music as a genre of folklore from a broadly cross-cultural perspective and espouses a more expansive view of folk music, stressing its vitality in non-Western cultures as well as Western, in the present as well as the past.

Pioneers of Jewish Ethnography and Folkloristics in Eastern Europe
Pioneers of Jewish Ethnography and Folkloristics in Eastern Europe

Author: Haya Bar-Itzhak

Publisher: Založba ZRC

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9612541744

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Knjiga zapolnjuje vrzel v poznavanju judovske etnografije in folkloristike v vzhodni Evropi in bralce seznanja z izbranimi in izjemnimi prispevki raziskovalcev, ki so teoretično gradili disciplino v času, ko so bile judovske etnološke raziskave še v zametkih. Ob predstavitvi izjemnih dosežkov posameznikov prinaša tudi prevode nekaterih njihovih najpomembnejših del.