{"product_id":"the-folk-by-ross-cole-9780520383746","title":"The Folk","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho are \u003cem\u003ethe folk\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a broad, interdisciplinary range of scholarship, \u003cem\u003eThe Folk\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428255383788,"sku":"9780520383746","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520383746.jpg?v=1774497334","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-folk-by-ross-cole-9780520383746","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}