"Retuning Culture"

[Morten Abildsnes]

At 18:20 17.06.98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello -
>
>Any comments on the following book?
>
>Regards,
>
>Zenon M. Feszczak
>Philosopher ex nihilo

>Retuning Culture : Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe
>Mark Slobin (Editor) /  Published 1997
>
I read it some months ago and found it very interesting.
I will recommend it to any Seelanger even remotely
interested in the subject matter. The book hes something to
offer even to those who think they know a lot about the folk
music of this region.

I have marked  the articles which I found the most rewarding
with an X. Others may have different preferences.

X>Dmitri Pokrovsky and the Russian Folk Music Revival Movement By Theodore Levin
>
>Kundera's Musical Joke and "Folk" Music in Czechoslovakia, 1948-? By
>Michael Beckerman
>
X>The Aesthetic of the Hungarian Revival Movement By Judit Frigyesi
>
X>Lakodalmas Rock and the Rejection of Popular Culture in Post-Socialist
>Hungary By Barbara Rose Lange
>
>Continuity and Change in Eastern and Central European Traditional Music By
>Anna Czekanowska
>
>The Southern Wind of Change: Style and the Politics of Identity in Prewar
>Yugoslavia By Ljerka Vidic Rasmussen
>
X>The Ilahiya as a Symbol of Bosnian Muslim National Identity By Mirjana
>Lausevic
>
>Nationalism on Stage: Music and Change in Soviet Ukraine By Catherine Wanner
>
X>The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 and Its Reflection in Musical
>Folklore By Steluta Popa
>
>The Dialectic of Economics and Aesthetics in Bulgarian Music By Timothy Rice
>
X>Wedding Musicians, Political Transition, and National Consciousness in
>Bulgaria By Donna A. Buchanan
>
X>Music and Marginality: Roma (Gypsies) of Bulgaria and Macedonia By Carol
>Silverman
>
X>Change as Confirmation of Continuity As Experienced by Russian Molokans By
>Margarita Mazo

However, the book could (should?) have been twice as big.
I missed articles on e.g. Belarus', Slovenia and Albania

Morten Abildsnes

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