Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents
- ISBN-10
- 0133229335
- ISBN-13
- 9780133229332
- Category
- Music / History & Criticism
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1973
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Authors
- Gerard Béhague, Bruno Nettl
Description
New edition of the text first published in 1965 (revised by Valerie Woodring Goertzeu). Presents the general characteristics of traditional music and its cultural context along with some of the methods used to study folk music. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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