The Folk Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination

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 industrialization 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.

ISBN:	9780520383739
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	07 Sep 2021
DEWEY:	306.48422
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiv, 258
Weight:	474g
Height:	157mm
Width:	235mm
Spine width:	26mm

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