Awards
- Winner of 2006 Orbis Book Award winner.
Overview
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 Górale (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 Górale musicians, their present-day lives and music making, and how they navigate a regional mountain-defined identity while participating in global music culture. Vivid descriptions of musical performances at weddings, funerals, and festivals and the collaboration of Górale fiddlers with the Jamaican reggae group Twinkle Brothers are framed by discussions of currently influential theories relating to identity and ethnicity and to anthropological and sociological studies of ritual, tourism, festivals, globalism, and globalization. The book includes a 46-track CD illustrating the rich variety of Górale music, including examples of its fusion with Jamaican reggae.
Full Product Details
Author: Timothy J. Cooley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.667kg
ISBN: 9780253344892
ISBN 10: 0253344891
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 14 April 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
No concise review can do full justice to this remarkable book, every page of which is filled with factual information, together with musical examples photographs, and illustrations. This is not only a fine ethnomusicological study but a labour of love in which the author's deep affection for muzyka Podhala is evident on every page. --SEER, JULY 2006
""No concise review can do full justice to this remarkable book, every page of which is filled with factual information, together with musical examples photographs, and illustrations. This is not only a fine ethnomusicological study but a labour of love in which the author's deep affection for muzyka Podhala is evident on every page.""--SEER, JULY 2006
... a valuable resource. It stands out as a valuable contribution to the field that will be of general interest to scholars working in Eastern Europe or dealing with concepts of hybridity and purity in a national framework. -Arle Lommel, Indiana University, Journal of Folklore Research, March 23, 2009
Author Information
Timothy J. Cooley is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-editor (with Gregory F. Barz) of Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology.
