Functionality and Aesthetics: On the Structural Principles of Traditional Folk Music and Their Transformation in the Bavarian "Cultivation" Movement
F. Schötz:
"Cultivated" and "Non-cultivated" Folk Music: On Music-making Among Traditional Dance Musicians in Bavaria
C. Lenk:
"Cultivated" Folk Music: More Invention than Discovery? Appropriation and Mediation of Songs in East Bavaria
H. Frey:
Traditional Urban Entertainment in Bavaria: The Volkssänger as Exemplified by Bally Prell
J. Focht:
Denominational Roots of Swabian Amateur Music-making
J. Wax:
On the Current Urban Dance Life In and Around Regensburg
A. Griebel:
The Discovery of Franconian Folk Song
Book Reviews
P.V. Bohlman
: Nicholas Cook. Music: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford and New York
M. Stokes
: Jane C. Sugarman. Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Singing. Chicago and London
J. Lee
: Antoinet Schimmelpenninck. Chinese Folk Songs and Folk Singers: Shan'ge Traditions in Southern Jiangsu. CHIME Studies, Leiden
K. Neuenfeldt
: Timothy Taylor. Global Pop: World Music, World Markets. London and New York
W. van Zanten
: Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams, eds. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 4: Southeast Asia. New York and London
T. Taylor
: Simon Broughton, ed. Songlines: Journeys in World Music [magazine]
CD Reviews
R. Polak
: Guinée. Musique des Malinké. Recordings and annotation by Gilbert Rouget. Le Chant du Monde
M.P. Baumann
: Yagua Tairari. Música y cantores de los Guaraní (Bolivia). Fundación Simon I. Patino, and El tambor mayor. Música y cantos de las comunidades negras de Bolivia. Fundación Simon I. Patino
Institutions
E. Sepp
: Der Bayerische Landesverein für Heimatpflege, e.V. / Bavarian State Association for the Cultivation of Local Traditions, Munich
A. Griebel
: Forschungsstelle für fränkische Volksmusik / Research Center for Franconian Folk Music