
The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music'
Matthew Gelbart
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Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner
by Matthew Gelbart, Gelbart
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We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines.
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