The Study of Change in Traditional Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8933898 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Elbourne (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 181-189 |
| Publication date | 1975-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1975.9716020 |
| OpenAlex | W1994637743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
THIS is a voice crying in the wilderness. Folklife studies in Europe and America have concentrated on the collection and analysis of an accumulated corpus of material, which appears to have a structure, called 'the tradition'. Charles Seeger points out that this is an illusion, a result of our position in space and time, since in reality the repertoire and its relation to the culture of which it is a part are in a constant state of flux.2 Nevertheless, the study of folk music has been predominantly concerned with continuity and stability. Folk music is often seen as an agent in the maintainance of 'social equilibrium', subject to gradual 'evolutionary' or 'organic' change through the process of variation. For Cecil Sharp, in the transmission of folk music
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 1987 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |