Folk

Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination

AvRoss Cole

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-07
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520383739

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Ross Cole is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. His writing on a range of topics appears in leading journals including Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, and ASAP/Journal.

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"This is not a book about music, song, or performers. It is intellectual history of a rarefied kind. This needs to be understood if we are to appreciate Cole’s work for what it is: a quite brilliant deconstruction of the entire historiography of ‘folk’. His thesis is compelling, deceptively simple, and ultimately irrefutable. Cole’s great leap is to see, in this process, coherence, where others have seen only mess, hypocrisy, and contradiction. . . [He has produced] a convincing and definitive deconstruction of the myth of the folk, its antecedents, intentions, methods, and consequences. If there were such a thing as justice, no one would ever again speak on the subject of ‘folk music’ without having first digested this book."

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionLost Voices1. Collecting CultureScience, Technology, & Reification2. A Geography of the ForgottenVernacular Music & Modernity's Discontents3. Utopian Community Nostalgia from Marx to Morris4. Difference and BelongingOn the Songs of Black Folk5. Soul through the SoilCecil Sharp & the Specter of FascismCoda Blood Sings: A Soundtrack for the Alt-RightNotesBibliographyIndex