The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music': Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner
(Part of the New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series)
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We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521178347
ISBN13:9780521178341
Release Date:March 2011
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:300 Pages
Weight:1.22 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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