This is the first annotated bibliography, in German or English, to gather the rich sources for German-language folk-music scholarship. It presents a comprehensi

This book takes a unique approach to the study of folk music in Central Europe. Through an analysis of this cultural tradition, and of how words and ideas that

The aim of this study is to increase understanding of folk music within an historical, European framework, and to show the genre as a dynamic and changing art f

In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial cris

As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition--and nowher