Overview

In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior. This book explores the cultural significance of flutes, flute playing, and flute players from around the world as interpreted from folktales, myths, and other stories--in a word, """"flutelore."""" A scholarly yet readable study, World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power draws upon a range of sources in folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and literary analysis. Describing and interpreting many examples of flutes as they are found in mythology, poetry, lyrics, and other narrative and literary sources from around the world, veteran ethnomusicologist Dale Olsen seeks to determine what is singularly distinct or unique about flutes, flute playing, and flute players in a global context. He shows how and why flutes are important for personal, communal, religious, spiritual, and secular expression and even, perhaps, existence. This is a book for students, scholars, and any reader interested in the cultural power of flutes.

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Author:   Dale A. Olsen
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780252037887

ISBN 10:   025203788
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   06 December 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsIllustrationsPreludeStory One. Raman’s New Flute: Vellore, IndiaChapter 1. Flute Types and StereotypesStory Two. The Turtle, the Monkey, and the Jaguar: Apinayé (Gê) culture, BrazilChapter 2. The Making of World FlutesStory Three. Manwoldae Is Autumn Grass: Korean Poem from the Late Fourteenth CenturyChapter 3. Flutes That TalkStory Four. Culture Heroes Discover the First Flutes: Wogeo culture, New GuineaChapter 4. Flutes and Gender RolesStory Five. The Story of the Flutemaker: Lakota culture, United States of AmericaChapter 5. Flutes, Sexuality, and Love MagicStory Six. Aniz the Shepherd: Uyghur culture, ChinaChapter 6. Flutes and the Animal KingdomStory Seven. The Origin of Maize: Yupa culture, VenezuelaChapter 7. Flutes and NatureStory Eight. The Fluteplayer: ChinaChapter 8. Flute Origin Myths and Flute-Playing HeroesStory Nine. Yoshitsune’s Voyage among the Islands: JapanChapter 9. Flutes and Protective PowerStory Ten: The Rat Catcher of Korneuburg: AustriaChapter 10. Flutes and DeathStory Eleven. The Pifuano Flute of the Chullachaqui Rainforest Spirits: Iquitos, PeruChapter 11. Flutes and Unethical/Ethical BehaviorStory Twelve. Song of the Flute: The First Eighteen Verses of Rumi’s Masnevi: Persia (Iran)Chapter 12. Religious Status of FlutesStory Thirteen. How the Noble Fujiwara no Yasumasa Faced Down the Bandit HakamadareChapter 13. Socioreligious Status of Flute MusiciansStory Fourteen. Hard to Fill: IrelandChapter 14. The Aesthetics and Power of Flute Sounds, Timbres, and Sonic TexturesConclusionNotesReferencesIndex of StoriesIndex

Reviews

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<br>

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 Any reader interested in world culture, music, ethnography, or ethnomusicology will enjoy Olsen's work. Recommended. --Choice World Flutelore breathlessly succeeds in establishing a foothold for flutes as a subject worthy of study, and inspires organological curiosity even among those uninitiated to flues and flutelore. --Journal of American Folklore

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A lifelong flutist performing classical, jazz, and many types of world flute music, Dale A. 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.

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