Introduction : lost voices -- Collecting culture : science, technology, & reification -- A geography of the forgotten : vernacular music & modernity's discontents -- Utopian community : nostalgia from Marx to Morris -- Difference & belonging : on the songs of black folk -- Soul through the soil : Cecil Sharp & the spectre of fascism -- Coda : blood sings : a soundtrack for the alt-right.
Summary:
"Who were 'the folk'? This question has haunted generations of radicals and reactionaries alike. The Folk traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and the US during a crucial period from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right. It follows an insistent set of disputes surrounding the practice of collecting, ideas of racial belonging, the poetics of nostalgia, and the pre-history of European fascism. It is the biography of a people who exist only as a symptom of the modern imagination and the archaeology of a landscape directing the flow of global politics today"--Provided by publisher.
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