“Modal Profile for Europe” is reprinted from Alan Lomax, Folk Song Style and Culture, Washington, D.C. : American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1968, by permission of the author. “Mulla Mohammad Jan,” is reprinted from Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, Music in the Mind: The Concept of Music and Musician in Afghanistan, Kent State University Press, 1983, by permission of the publisher. “Geming Gequ: Songs for the Education of the Masses,” by Isabel K. F. Wong, is reprinted from Bonnie S. Mc-Dougall, ed., Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979 , University of California Press, 1984, by permission of the publisher.

© 1988 by Philip V. Bohlman

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Bohlman, Philip Vilas.

The study of folk music in the modern world.

(Folkloristics)

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. Folk music—History and criticism. I. Title.

II. Series.

ML3545.B641988781.T0987-45401

ISBN 0-253-35555-9

ISBN 0-253-20464-X (pbk.)

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