The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music'
Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner
Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism; 16;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 11 October 2007
- ISBN 9780521863032
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 234x156x17 mm
- Weight 600 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A study tracing the origins and implications of the categories 'folk music' and 'art music'.
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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 only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as the earliest impetus in classifying music by origins, and how the notions of folk music and art music followed - in conjunction with changing conceptions of nature, and changing ideas about human creativity. Through tracing the history of these musical categories, the book confronts our assumptions about different kinds of music.
Review of the hardback: 'The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music' is an important work with a wealth of interesting things to say to students of the Enlightenment and the Romantic Revival. It represents a major contribution to the field.' William Donaldson, author of The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society, 1750-1950, Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Function to origin: national identity and national genius emerge, c.1700-80; 2. From pastoral to picturesque: nature, art, and genre in the later eighteenth century; 3. Genius versus Art in the creative process: 'national' and 'cultivated' music as categories, 1760-1800; 4. The invention of folk modality, 1775-1840; 5. 'Folk' and 'tradition': authenticity as musical idiom from the late eighteenth century onward; 6. Organic 'art music' and individual original genius: aestheticizing the folk collective; 7. Local nation and universal folk: the legacy of geography in musical categories; 8. Folk and art music in the modern western world.
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