"[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.

Papers presented at the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.

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

Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder’s writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder

The study moves from tradition to modernity, explores a range of topics such as: song life in the traditional village; rural–urban tensions; local min’yo �