World Flutelore - Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power

Klappentext A lifelong flutist performing classical! jazz! and many types of world flute music! Dale Olsen is a professor emeritus of ethnomusicology at Florida State University. His many books include Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest and Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering! The Economics of Forgetting. "This study on flutes and their lore in different global settings is engagingly readable and of genuine interest not only to ethnomusicologists and folklorists, but to all musically minded readers. Olsen unveils an almost boundless panoramic view of the flute as a powerful entity that permeates people's aesthetic, symbolic, cultural, and mythological worlds and their inner psyches."--A. J. Racy, author of Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab Zusammenfassung Seeks to determine what is singularly distinct or unique about flutes! flute playing! and flute players in a global context.

Product details

• Authors: Dale A. Olsen
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2013
• EAN: 9780252037887
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03788-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Folklore, Mythen und Legenden, Folk-Stil