Making Music In The Polish Tatras

by Cooley, Timothy J.

• ISBN13: 9780253344892
• ISBN10: 0253344891
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Challenging myths that mountain isolation and ancient folk customs defined the music culture of the Polish Tatras, Timothy J. Cooley shows that intensive contact with tourists and their more academic kin, ethnographers, since the late 19th century helped shape both the ethnic group known as Górale (highlanders) and the music that they perform. Making Music in the Polish Tatras reveals how the historically related practices of tourism and ethnography actually created the very objects of tourist and ethnographic interest in what has become the popular resort region of Zakopane. This lively book introduces readers to Górale musicians, their present-day lives and music making, and how they navigate a regional mountain-defined identity while participating in global music culture. Vivid descriptions of musical performances at weddings, funerals, and festivals and the collaboration of Górale fiddlers with the Jamaican reggae group Twinkle Brothers are framed by discussions of currently influential theories relating to identity and ethnicity and to anthropological and sociological studies of ritual, tourism, festivals, globalism, and globalization. The book includes a 46-track CD illustrating the rich variety of Górale music, including examples of its fusion with Jamaican reggae.

Author Biography

Timothy J. Cooley is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-editor (with Gregory F. Barz) of Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	xi
Note on Citations of Fieldwork Media	xix
INTRODUCTION	1	(17)
1 Podhale	18	(40)
2 Making History	58	(25)
3 Making Mountain Music: A History of Ethnography in Podhale	83	(40)
4 Village on Stage	123	(39)
5 Global Village	162	(41)
6 Village for Hire	203	(14)
7 Back to the Village	217	(29)
EPILOGUE: Village Exhumed	246	(5)
Glossary	251	(6)
Notes	257	(6)
References Cited	263	(12)
List of Illustrations	275	(4)
List of Audio Examples	279	(4)
Index	283