Fiddling for Norway: Revival and Identity Book

CONTENTS

List of Figures


Preface and Acknowledgments


Part One Fiddlers

1
Introduction

Geography, History, and Norwegian Identity


Music in Oral Tradition in Early Norway


Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Fiddling and Fiddlers



2.
Reviving Folkemusikk

Early Folk Music Contests


The Hardanger Fiddle, National Romanticism, and the Young National Fiddlers' Association


Growth of the National Fiddle Contest and of Norway's Institutionalized Folk Music Milieu


Artistry and Tradition: The History of Judging Contests


The “Normal' Fiddle in the National Fiddlers' Association



3
Fiddlers and Fiddle Clubs in the Late Twentieth Century

Who Becomes a Fiddler?


The Fiddle Club



4
Contests and Concerts

Local Contests


Concerts


The National Fiddle Contest Today



5
Reconfiguring the Norwegian Folk Music World: The Gammaldans Controversy

Beginning to Argue the Worth of Gammaldans Music


Trems of the Debate


Birth of the National Festival for Gammaldans Music


Portrait of the Festival in 1991




Part Two
Fiddle Tunes

6
Fiddle Tunes in Folkemusikk Genres: Mode and Form

Conventions of Transcription


Introducing the Issues: A Sample Performance


Mode


Extra Resonance: Unusual Tunings and Multiple Stops Reinforcing Mode


Form and Gesture



7
Local and Regional Style, Genre, and the Individual Fiddle Tune

Local Style: Subdivisions of Pols Territory


Other Major Folkemusikk Genres: Halling, Gammalvals, and Bruremarsj


The Listening Piece: Program Music, Exoticism, and Modern Needs


The Music of Gammaldans


The Testimony of Tune Titles


Musical Resemblances and Relationships



8
Musical Change and Cultural Forces Late in the Twentieth Century

Judging at Contests: Tradition, Art, and Winning


Tunes and Repertoires Today


Folk Music and Dance Events: Proliferation, Gigantism, and Change


The Folk Milieu, the Media, and the Norwegian Public


“Springar etter Gamle-Lars Tomasgård”: Decentralizing the Revival




Tune Anthology


Performance Information


Notes


Bibliography


Index