I wonder whether the author discusses the "borrowing" of musical traditions. Most of us know that popular musics of the 20th (and 21st) centuries were "borrowed from African American originators. Similarly (and less well-known), many of the Romantic composers "borrowed" from Sinti and Roma traditions. Here's a quote I found recently (I think on Wikipedia):
"These Gypsy musicians were descendants of famous Gypsy orchestras such as János Bihari,... They created the Csárdás, which influenced such composers as Joseph Haydn; Franz Liszt, who wrote fifteen Hungarian rhapsodies; Johannes Brahms, who wrote twenty-one Hungarian dances; Antonín Dvořák; Pablo de Sarasate, who wrote Zigeunerweisen; Georges Bizet, who wrote Carmen; and Maurice Ravel, who wrote Tzigane.
Certainly, in my family there was a story that we were early performers at the Passion Play in Oberammergau (c. 1650), so a "folk" tradition predating the composers with expensive instruments and staff paper. I would also point to the use of the mixolydian mode in early European (especially Gaelic) music, which is shared by much East Indian music (think Ravi Shankar's sitar tuning).
I wonder whether the author discusses the "borrowing" of musical traditions. Most of us know that popular musics of the 20th (and 21st) centuries were "borrowed from African American originators. Similarly (and less well-known), many of the Romantic composers "borrowed" from Sinti and Roma traditions. Here's a quote I found recently (I think on Wikipedia):
"These Gypsy musicians were descendants of famous Gypsy orchestras such as János Bihari,... They created the Csárdás, which influenced such composers as Joseph Haydn; Franz Liszt, who wrote fifteen Hungarian rhapsodies; Johannes Brahms, who wrote twenty-one Hungarian dances; Antonín Dvořák; Pablo de Sarasate, who wrote Zigeunerweisen; Georges Bizet, who wrote Carmen; and Maurice Ravel, who wrote Tzigane.
Certainly, in my family there was a story that we were early performers at the Passion Play in Oberammergau (c. 1650), so a "folk" tradition predating the composers with expensive instruments and staff paper. I would also point to the use of the mixolydian mode in early European (especially Gaelic) music, which is shared by much East Indian music (think Ravi Shankar's sitar tuning).
It's a very general overview, I think that borrowing would be too fine-grained.