The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music': Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner

by Matthew Gelbart

Book Overview

We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521178347
• ISBN13: 9780521178341
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"