Swedish Folk Music in the Twenty-First Century: On the Nature of Tradition in a Folkless Nation

By David Kaminsky

Swedish Folk Music in the Twenty-First Century: On the Nature of Tradition in a Folkless Nation, by David Kaminsky, examines the struggle of present-day Swedish folk musicians and dancers to maintain the cultural currency of their genre while simultaneously challenging the historical fallacies and nineteenth-century romantic nationalism upon which that currency was originally based.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739167227
• ISBN13: 9780739167229
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher