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Folk music : a very short introduction /

When we think of folk music, most of us picture Pete Seeger singing "This Land is My Land" or Joan Baez singing "Barbara Allen." But this stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, in a wide-ranging portrait that goes far beyo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Slobin, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Very short introductions ; 257.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of llustrations; Preface; 1 Overview: sound and setting; 2 Close-up: songs, strums, and ceremonies; 3 Intellectual intervention: scholars and bureaucrats; 4 Collecting and circulating: recording and distributing; 5 Internal upsurge: movements and stars; 6 Folk music today and tomorrow; References; Further reading; Index.