"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it.
Explaining that musicality is an essential touchstone of the human experience, a concise introduction to the study of the nature of music, its community and its
The Japanese say that ‘folk song is the heart’s home town’. Traditional folk songs (min’yo) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of
This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of th