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 beyond America's shores to discuss
folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe.
Written by award-winning musicologist Mark Slobin, this is the first
compact introduction to folk music that offers a truly global
perspective. Slobin offers an extraordinarily generous portrait of folk
music, one that embraces a Russian wedding near the Arctic Circle, a
group song in a small rainforest village in Brazil, and an Uzbek dance
tune in Afghanistan. He looks in detail at three poignant songs from
three widely separated regions--northern Afghanistan, Jewish Eastern
Europe, and the Anglo-American world--with musical notation and lyrics
included. And he also describes the efforts of scholars who fanned out
across the globe, to find and document this ever-changing music.
Mark Slobin
(Author)
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