Ilmatar's Inspirations

by Ramnarine, Tina K.

• ISBN13: 9780226704036
• ISBN10: 0226704033
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Ilmatar gave birth to the bard who sang the Finnish landscape into being in the Kalevala(the Finnish national epic). InIlmatar's Inspirations,Tina K. Ramnarine explores creative processes and the critical role that music has played in Finnish nationalism by focusing on Finnish "new folk music" in the shifting spaces between the national imagination and the global marketplace. Through extensive interviews and observations of performances, Ramnarine reveals how new folk musicians think and talk about past and present folk music practices, the role of folk music in the representation of national identity, and the interactions of Finnish folk musicians with performers from around the globe. She focuses especially on two internationally successful groups--JPP, a group that plays fiddle dance music, and Vauml;rttinauml;, an ensemble that highlights women's vocal traditions. Analyzing the multilayered processes--musical, institutional, political, and commercial--that have shaped and are shaped by new folk music in Finland, Ramnarine gives us an entirely new understanding of the connections between music, place, and identity.

Author Biography

Tina K. Ramnarine is a lecturer in ethnomusicology and social anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. She is the author of Creating Their Own Space: The Development of an Indian-Caribbean Musical Tradition and is also a professional classical violinist with a special interest in folk fiddling traditions.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

Introduction

Place, Identity, Representation "National Art"

Folk Music, Art Music History Continuity and Change

Identity and Representation

Borrowing from the Traditions of "Others"

The Folk and the Nation

Interest in Folklore before Louml;nnrot and the Kalevala Louml;nnrot and the Kalevala

The Kalevala, Song Traditions, and the Kantele Myth, Music, Landscape, Identity

Ethnography

The Transmission, Performance, and Repertoire of New Folk Music

The Folk Music Revival in Finland

Toward "New Folk Music" Revival, Transformation, Authenticity

The Kaustinen Festival and Konsta Jylhauml

The Role of Folklorists in the Finnish Revival Movement

The Role of (Jazz and Rock) Musicians in the Revival

Movement Institutionalizing Folk Music during the Revival

New Folk Music in the Urban Center

The Setting: The Sibelius Academy Learning

Folk Music at the Sibelius Academy Performing

Folk Music in the Urban Center

Vauml;rttinauml;: Women's

Songs from the East An Interview with Sari Kaasinen

Making the Music Gender and Region Reception, Aesthetics, Politics

New Folk Music in a Rural

Context Formal Folk Music Education in the Village of Kaustinen

The Kaustinen Festival: "Roots in Finland" 1992 From Five Strings to Electric Models

A Family of Folk Musicians

The Jauml;rvelauml;s

The Fiddle in Finland

A Historical Perspective Biography

Locality, "Authenticity" Composing New Folk Music

The Ostrobothnian Example Local Musicians, Global Stages

Folk Music, World Music

Musical and Social Identities

Borrowing from the Traditions of "Others"

New Folk Music and Karelianism Saami Music in Helsinki

Learning from Senegalese Musicians

The Finnish Tango Irish Music in Helsinki Appropriation

Originality, Representation

Global Commodities

The New Folk Music Recording in World Music Markets

Sonic Representations: Music in Many Places

Small Record Companies in Finland

The Finnish Performing Music Promotion Center (ESEK)

Music as Product: Questions of Ownership

Epilogue Musical Spaces

Writing History

Notes

Bibliography

Discography

Index

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