World Flutelore
Subtitle: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780252037887
Subjects: Flute music; Music, history and criticism
Description: In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and non-human behaviour. This book explores the cultural significance of flutes, flute playing, and flute players from around the world as interpreted from folktales, myths, and other stories - in a word, 'flutelore'.