In this Book
- World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
summary
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 nonhuman behavior. 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."" A scholarly yet readable study, World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power draws upon a range of sources in folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and literary analysis.
Describing and interpreting many examples of flutes as they are found in mythology, poetry, lyrics, and other narrative and literary sources from around the world, veteran ethnomusicologist Dale Olsen seeks to determine what is singularly distinct or unique about flutes, flute playing, and flute players in a global context. He shows how and why flutes are important for personal, communal, religious, spiritual, and secular expression and even, perhaps, existence. This is a book for students, scholars, and any reader interested in the cultural power of flutes.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. xi-xii
- Story Two. The Turtle, the Monkey, and the Jaguar: Apinayé (Gê) culture, Brazil
- Story Three. Manwoldae Is Autumn Grass: Korean Poem from the Late Fourteenth Century
- Chapter 3. Flutes That Talk
- pp. 31-37
- Story Four. Culture Heroes Discover the First Flutes: Wogeo culture, New Guinea
- Chapter 4. Flutes and Gender Roles
- pp. 40-45
- Chapter 7. Flutes and Nature
- pp. 93-99
- Story Eight. The Fluteplayer: China
- pp. 100-104
- Chapter 9. Flutes and Protective Power
- pp. 117-128
- Chapter 10. Flutes and Death
- pp. 132-140
- Story Twelve. Song of the Flute: The First Eighteen Verses of Rumi’s Masnevi: Persia (Iran)
- Chapter 12. Religious Status of Flutes
- pp. 150-162
- Story Fourteen. Hard to Fill: Ireland
- Conclusion
- pp. 191-196
- References
- pp. 213-224
- Index of Stories
- pp. 225-228
- Subject Index
- pp. 229-238
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252095146
Related ISBN(s)
9780252037887, 9780252079412
MARC Record
OCLC
886946922
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013