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Am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges lag als Ergebnis der seit 1904 in allen Landern der Monarchie durchgefuhrten volksmusikalischen Sammlung ein Probeband vor, der unter dem Titel "Das Volkslied in Osterreich" als Muster fur Format und Schriftart aller zu edierenden Bande in deutscher, slawischer und romanischer Sprache dienen sollte. Der Zusammenbruch der Monarchie verhinderte dieses "Monumentalwerk", das aus 60 Banden bestehen sollte. Der Probeband enthalt mehr als 150 Lieder und Tanze mit Melodien, zahlreiche Spruche und Reime sowie 150 Abbildungen. In den einbegleitenden Texten des Jahres 1918 wird "Wesen und Eigenart des Unternehmens" erlautert und mit dem Leitgedanken "Den Hauptinhalt des W...
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This is the first annotated bibliography, in German or English, to gather the rich sources for German-language folk-music scholarship. It presents a comprehensive view of both historical and contemporary trends in a field embracing folkloristics and ethnomusicology, as well as philological and cultural studies. Beginning with early theories of folk song-formulated by Herder, Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, and others-the book examines the most important collections of the 19th-century folk-song movement, and surveys the 20th-century institutions and publications that have made folk-music scholarship essential to an understanding of German-speaking Europe. The book represents the enormous diversi...
Bohlman investigates several aspects of Jewish music within the context of the period beginning with the emancipation of German-Jewish culture during the eighteenth century and culminating in the destruction of that same culture under the Nazis.
Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest music spectacle anywhere in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest -- Philip V. Bohlman reveals the ways in which music and nationalism intersect in the shaping of the New Europe. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe begins with the emergence of the European nation-state in the Middle Ages and extends across long periods during which Europe’s nations used music to comp...
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