Making Music in the Polish Tatras Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians

Name: Making Music in the Polish Tatras Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians
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ISBN: 9780253344892

ISBN-10: 0253344891

ISBN-13: 9780253344892

Edition: 2004

Authors: Timothy J. Cooley

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Challenging myths that mountain isolation and ancient folk customs defined the music culture of the Polish Tatras, Timothy J. Cooley shows that intensive contact with tourists and their more academic kin, ethnographers, since the late 19th century helped shape both the ethnic group known as Gorale (highlanders) and the music that they perform. Making Music in the Polish Tatras reveals how the historically related practices of tourism and ethnography actually created the very objects of tourist and ethnographic interest in what has become the popular resort region of Zakopane. This lively book introduces readers to Gorale musicians, their present-day lives and music making, and how they…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/14/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Note on Citations of Fieldwork Media


Introduction



Podhale



Making History



Making Mountain Music: A History of Ethnography in Podhale



Village on Stage



Global Village



Village for Hire



Back to the Village


Epilogue: Village Exhumed


Glossary


Notes


References Cited


List of Illustrations


List of Audio Examples


Index