The Folk

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Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination

By Ross Cole

Summary

The Folk traces the elusive figures behind folk music in Britain and the US from 1870 to 1930, extending to the modern alt-right. Ross Cole explores the political depths of folk culture's appeal, linking it to industrialisation, nationalism, and the roots of European fascism. Using interdisciplinary research, the book provides a profound biography of a people shaped by imagination and a cultural landscape influencing global populism today.
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Essential reading for students and scholars of music history, cultural studies, and political history, especially those interested in folk traditions, nationalism, and the intersections of culture and ideology.

Description

Who are the folk in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and the US during a crucial period of industrialisation from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right.

Drawing on a broad, interdisciplinary range of scholarship, The Folk examines the political dimensions of a recurrent longing for folk culture and how it was called upon for radical and reactionary ends at the apex of empire. It follows an insistent set of disputes surrounding the practice of collecting, ideas of racial belonging, nationality, the poetics of nostalgia, and the pre-history of European fascism.

Deeply researched and beautifully written, Ross Cole provides us with a biography of a people who exist only as a symptom of the modern imagination, and the archaeology of a landscape directing flows of global populism to this day.

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Music & Letters calls it "a quite brilliant deconstruction of the entire historiography of ‘folk’, with a compelling and irrefutable thesis." The review praises Cole's work as a convincing challenge to traditional views and states the book will be indispensable for anyone engaging with folk music scholarship. It warns the book should provoke critical reflection among ethnomusicologists regarding interpretative frames and methods.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520383746

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 September 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 25 b-w illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 276

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Ross Cole

About the Author

Ross Cole is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. His writing on a range of topics appears in leading journals including Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, and ASAP/Journal.