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Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America Includes CD/DVD

By Mirjana Lausevic

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
019517867X, 9780195178678
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3928717 bytes)
Series
American Musicspheres
Edition
Har/DVD
Pages
310\310
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-10-04 21:00:59
History & Criticism;Music;Arts & Photography;Ethno

Description

In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates why so many Americans actively participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they have no family or ethnic connection. Going beyond traditional interpretations, she challenges the notion that participation in Balkan culture in North America is merely a specialized offshoot of the 1960s American folk music scene. Instead, her exploration of the relationship between the stark sounds and lively dances of the Balkan region and the Americans who love them reveals that Balkan dance and music has much deeper roots in America's ideas about itself, its place in the world, and the place of the world's cultures in the melting pot.

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