The Cambridge Companion to Folk Music

Name: The Cambridge Companion to Folk Music
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ISBN: 9781009407588

Ross Cole (University of Leeds)

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Cambridge University Press
19 February 2026

Music; Folk & traditional music; History: specific events & topics; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Cambridge Companions to Music

A groundbreaking critical introduction to folk music and song focused on questions of identity, community, representation, politics, and popular culture. Written by a distinguished international team of authors, this Companion is an indispensable resource for rethinking the confluence of sound, heritage, and identity in the twenty-first century. A unique addition to the literature, it highlights the fundamentally hybrid and (post)colonial dynamics that have shaped people's cultures around the globe, from the Appalachian mountains to the Indian subcontinent. It provides students with new critical paradigms essential for understanding how and why certain musical traditions have been characterised as 'folk'-and what continues to inspire folkloric imaginaries today. The twenty specially commissioned chapters explore folk music from a variety of perspectives including ethnography, revivalism, migration, race, class, gender, protest, and the public sphere. Among these chapters are four 'Artist Voices' by world-renowned performers Peggy Seeger, Angeline Morrison, Jon Boden, and Yale Strom.

Edited by: Ross Cole (University of Leeds)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 691g
ISBN: 9781009407588
ISBN 10: 1009407589
Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ross Cole teaches at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination (2021), which won the Society for Ethnomusicology's Bruno Nettl Prize, awarded to an outstanding publication on the history of the field.