Views of Folk Music Making in 19th-Century Visual Arts. Views of folk music making in 19th-century visual arts are marked by leading contemporary spiritual courses and artistic schools. The Romantic ...discovery of folk art, longing for non-artifical and simple phenomena, but also the search for the exotic, the country idyll and the characteristic - all this characterized visual art views of folk music making, singing and dancing. Special attention is given to the ideological use of the folk musician and singer motives. From Romantic idealization to late 19th-century positivism, views of folk music are precious sources both for ethnomusicology and the history of ideas on folk art. In this study less known visual sources, among which are also travelogues, are commented on, - forming by their visual material and accompanying texts - a category of sources, insufficiently investigated up to now.
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