Ilmatar's Inspirations
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ethnomusicology
fiddle
fiddling
finland
folk music
folklore
gender
globalization
helsinki
ireland
jpp
kalevala
karelianism
kaustinen festival
landscape
legend
lonnrot
musicians
myth
national identity
nationalism
nature
nonfiction
oral narratives
ownership
performance
place
repertoire
representation
revival
saami
sibelius academy
social anthropology
soundscapes
tango
tradition
transformation
urban
varttina
vocal
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780226704029
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2003
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Ilmatar gave birth to the bard who sang the Finnish landscape into being in the "Kalevala" (the Finnish national epic). In "Ilmatar'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 Varttina, 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 among music, place and identity.
