Title: INVENTION OF "FOLK MUSIC" AND "ART MUSIC": EMERGING CATEGORIES FROM OSSIAN TO WAGNER
Description: 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 today. 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. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other.
Subjects: Folk music, Music, history and criticism, 18th century, Music, history and criticism, 19th century, History and criticism, Music, Historiography, Musique folklorique, Histoire et critique, Musique, Historiographie, Nationalism in music, Musical Style, Classification