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Music in the Balkans

By Jim Samson

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2013
ISBN
9004250379, 9789004250376
ISSN
1877-6272
Google Books ID
yJ60SHL4R-0C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8256210 bytes)
Series
Balkan Studies Library 8
Pages
xx+730\751
Topic
Art Music
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-03-04 20:31:05

Description

This book asks how a study of many different musics in South East Europe can help us understand the construction of cultural traditions, East and West. It crosses boundaries of many kinds, political, cultural, repertorial and disciplinary. Above all, it seeks to elucidate the relationship between politics and musical practice in a region whose art music has been all but written out of the European story and whose traditional music has been subject to appropriation by one ideology after another. South East Europe, with its mix of ethnicities and religions, presents an exceptionally rich field of study in this respect. The book will be of value to anyone interested in intersections between pre-modern and modern cultures, between empires and nations and between culture and politics.

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