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Description

1. xiii, 279 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Presenting the past in terms of conceptual tools and manners of dealing with cultural material in order to understand the present is the purpose of this book. This book takes a unique approach to the study of folk music in Central Europe. Through an analysis of this cultural tradition, and of how words and ideas that were first introduced in Latin Antiquity became increasingly cultivated, refined, and established in the centuries that followed, the volume also questions present-day studies of sound and its organization into the field of so-called "folk music". In so doing, it breaks down boundaries that separate historical studies from ethnomusicology, and sheds light on what music continues to mean in daily life. While the focus is primarily on Central European folk music, and in particular on material found in the Hungarian archives, the approach taken here also points to a fruitful comparative methodology that could be employed on a larger scale, enabling scholars to consider broader chronological and geographical contexts.

Series statement

1. Studies in the History of Daily Life (800-1600) ; volume 6

Uniform title

1. Studies in the history of daily life (800-1600) ; v. 6.

Alternative title

1. Folk songs and material culture in medieval Central Europe

Subject

1. To 1500
2. Folk music > Europe, Central > History and criticism
3. Material culture > Europe, Central > History > To 1500
4. Folk music
5. Manners and customs
6. Material culture
7. Europe, Central > Social life and customs
8. Central Europe

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. Introduction : scenes from life in Budapest -- Herder and his influence : a background for conceptualization -- Historiography of ideology : conceptual bases for the collection of folk song -- Understanding Herder : Plato's Timaeus and the medieval conceptualization of sound as material -- Aggregation : cultural properties exemplified -- Old stones, useful chunks : working with material -- Methodology and the question of 'types' -- A passion for collection : folk music and the sequence -- Transcription, translation, transmutation -- Nationalism and folk music -- Conclusions.

Call number

1. JME 20-194

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.

Author

1. Van Deusen, Nancy (Nancy Elizabeth), author.

Title

1. Folk songs and material culture in medieval Europe : old stones and new music / by Nancy van Deusen.

Publisher

1. Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2019]

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Studies in the History of Daily Life (800-1600) ; volume 6
2. Studies in the history of daily life (800-1600) ; v. 6.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.

Chronological term

1. To 1500

Cover title

1. Folk songs and material culture in medieval Central Europe

LCCN

1. 2019565188

ISBN

1. 9782503541327 (hardcover)
2. 2503541321 (hardcover)
3. 9782503558387 eBook

Research call number

1. JME 20-194