Modernity, Complex Societies, and the Alphorn

By Charlotte Vignau

This easily accessible book offers a pioneering study about the alphorn, its music, and its performance, based on extensive field research in Switzerland and other countries. It also offers new insights about the technique of filmmaking for musical ethnography. Being the first book on the alphorn in English, it combines originality and inspiration with solid, careful, and complete research.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739167979
• ISBN13: 9780739167977
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"