Slobin, Mark.

Folk music: a very short introduction / Mark Slobin - New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - 144 p. : ill., music ; 18 cm.

Overview: sound and setting --
Close-ups: songs, strums, and ceremonies --
Intellectual intervention: scholars and bureaucrats --
Collecting and circulating: recording and distributing --
Internal upsurge: movements and stars --
Folk music today and tomorrow.

9780195395020 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Folk music--History and criticism.

781.62 / SLO/F