Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition

by Michael Church

This ground-breaking book is the first-ever study of the role played in musical history by song collectors.

This is the first-ever book about song collectors, music's unsung heroes. They include the Armenian priest who sacrificed his life to preserve the folk music which the Turks were trying to erase in the 1915 Genocide; the prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who secretly noted down the songs of doomed Jewish inmates; the British singer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178327607X
• ISBN13: 9781783276073
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"