Full Description
A groundbreaking critical introduction to folk music and song focused on questions of identity, community, representation, politics, and popular culture. Written by a distinguished international team of authors, this Companion is an indispensable resource for rethinking the confluence of sound, heritage, and identity in the twenty-first century. A unique addition to the literature, it highlights the fundamentally hybrid and (post)colonial dynamics that have shaped people's cultures around the globe, from the Appalachian mountains to the Indian subcontinent. It provides students with new critical paradigms essential for understanding how and why certain musical traditions have been characterised as 'folk'-and what continues to inspire folkloric imaginaries today. The twenty specially commissioned chapters explore folk music from a variety of perspectives including ethnography, revivalism, migration, race, class, gender, protest, and the public sphere. Among these chapters are four 'Artist Voices' by world-renowned performers Peggy Seeger, Angeline Morrison, Jon Boden, and Yale Strom.
Contents
Introduction; Part I. Perspectives: 1. The idea of folk music Ross Cole; 2. Observing and collecting Jeff Todd Titon; 3. Folk and the public sphere Timothy Hampton; 4. Towards a critical folk music studies Brahma Prakash; 5. Artist voice: Fiddler on the Hoof-Reminiscences of an ethnographer Yale Strom; Part II. Elements: 6. Complementary modalities in Celtic music Joshua Dickson; 7. Thinking about the words to folks' songs Dianne Dugaw; 8. Folk instruments Maeve Carey-Kozlark; 9. Folk dance in a global frame Theresa Jill Buckland; 10. Artist voice: Jon Boden An introduction to introductions; Part III. Imaginaries: 11. Folk music and nationalism Katharine Ellis; 12. Colonialist hierarchies Erin Johnson Williams; 13. Reviving the folk Britta Sweers; 14. Music, migration, and belonging Helen Phelan (with Hala Jaber, John Nutekpor, and Ewa Zak-Dyndal); 15. Artist voice: mythopoeic singing or, the mythopoeic singer Angeline Morrison; Part IV. Identities: 16. Reclaiming Black folk music Katrina Thompson Moore; 17. Women in the margins Elizabeth Bennett; 18. No neutrals here: folk, class, labour Mark Steven; 19. Protest song and the popular voice Oskar Cox Jensen; 20. Artist voice: multiple identities Peggy Seeger; Further Reading; Resources; Index.
