June 24, 2005
'Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians'
When Timothy J. Cooley went to Poland in 1992, it was in search of a sound. As a state-employed ethnomusicologist in Illinois, he had heard music from the Tatra Mountains in Chicago's Polish community. Drawn to the source, he sought the village roots of music born, he imagined, in the purity of alpine isolation. What he found was more complicated, but no less entrancing.
His ethnography, Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians (Indiana
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