Wesleyan University Press has announced the re-issue of Ruth Finnegan's The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town (ISBN: 0-8195-6853-8). The 406 page book is a landmark study of music and culture that documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes, focusing on the early 1980s. This unique ethnography demonstrates the active and continuing role of local part-time musicians and their supporters while challenging general assumptions about music and how we study it.
The scope of the book is truly expansive, covering rock, country, brass band music, hand bell choirs, punk, opera, and many other forms of music. The...
Read more at: World Music Central
Wesleyan University Press has announced the re-issue of Ruth Finnegan's The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town (ISBN: 0-8195-6853-8). The 406 page book is a landmark study of music and culture that documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes, focusing on the early 1980s. This unique ethnography demonstrates the active and continuing role of local part-time musicians and their supporters while challenging general assumptions about music and how we study it.
The scope of the book is truly expansive, covering rock, country, brass band music, hand bell choirs, punk, opera, and many other forms of music. The...
Read more at: World Music Central
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