The Folk
| Author | : Ross Cole |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2021-09-07 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780520383746 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0520383745 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Folk written by Ross Cole and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--
