Music in Rural New England Family and Community Life
Music in Rural New England Family and Community Life,1870-1940
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Today music in New England homes and communities is broadcast through the airwaves, preserved on audio recordings, and reinforced in jam sessions and dance clubs. Before 1940, however, residents in rural New England communities listened to and performed music in more than express social spheres. Their performance venues were largely in the home, neighborhood, village, or work place. Fewer opportunities existed at that fourth dimension to bring new music into the customs or to share local music more widely. When commerce and the media began to dominate the music scene with the phonograph and, later, the radio, exchanges among musicians and fans transcended the local and broadened spheres of influence and radically altered the musical landscape.
Cartoon upon interviews and archival main source materials, this book presents new insights into the musical practices and traditions of late-nineteenth- and early on-twentieth-century rural Northern New England--a context that includes traditional ballads and hymns and, surprisingly, pop songs and commercial trip the light fantastic toe music. Jennifer Post lets the voices of ordinary people--the participants--tell us about their music and cultural history. Their stories are infused with issues of business organization to ethnomusicologists, historians, and social scientists about mural and customs, gendered expression, imagined traditions, and historical representation.
The author conveys that historical traditions are not always what they seem. Post offers a startling new estimation of vernacular music of the region: In contrast to many traditional scholars who accept viewed ballads and folk music, particularly in Appalachia, as somehow a "purer" brand of lost musical traditions, Mail finds that beyond Northern New England everyday people equally enjoyed and expressed themselves through an amalgam of folk ballads, dance music, and popular musical favorites. At the heart of this written report is the recognition that the musical lives of individuals, their families, and their communities were constantly being negotiated in relation to social status, gender relations, local geography, and economic needs.
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Product details
- Mixed media product | 256 pages
- 152 x 229 10 30.99mm | 671.32g
- 30 November 2004
- University of New Hampshire Press
- United States
- English
- 42 illustrations
- 1584654155
- 9781584654155
- 3,407,068
Review quote
"A milestone in the literature on American's far northeastern corner. Addressing the need for a historical overview of the region's vernacular music and trip the light fantastic toe traditions, Post deftly applies ethnographic rigor to the telling of a story whose details offer insightful commentary on a familiar premise: continuity and modify."--Notes: Periodical of the Music Library Association
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