- Description
- 1 online resource (xx, 238 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and non-human behaviour. This book explores the cultural significance of flutes, flute playing, and flute players from around the world as interpreted from folktales, myths, and other stories - in a word, 'flutelore'.
- Uniform Title
- World flutelore (Online)
- Alternative Title
- World flutelore (Online)
- Folktales, myths, and other stories of magical flute power
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Flute types and stereotypes -- The making of world flutes -- Flutes that talk -- Flutes and gender roles -- Flutes, sexuality, and love magic -- Flutes and the animal kingdom -- Flutes and nature -- Flutes origin myths and flute-playing heroes -- Flutes and protective power -- Flutes and death -- Flutes and unethical/ethical behavior -- Religious status of flutes -- Socioreligious status of flute musicians -- The aesthetics and power of flute sounds, timbres, and sonic textures.
- LCCN
- 2013951049
- OCLC
- ssj0001292002
- Author
Olsen, Dale A. (Dale Alan)
- Title
World flutelore [electronic resource] : folktales, myths, and other stories of magical flute power / Dale A. Olsen.
- Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press ; [2013]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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