| Popis: |
This article examines how place, sound, and links to tradition construct nostalgia in the media representations of four female folk singers from Scotland, Ireland, and England. The research material, consisting of both online and print magazine articles, reviews and interviews written about the artists, nostalgizes them and this in turn constructs them authentic as folk singers. Nostalgia in this context is a specific, unified, and even totalizing story about the past which is manifested in the origin narratives of the singers. These origin narratives consist of place, sound, and tradition, meaning the singers’ places of origin, their sound in reference to their voices and performance languages, and their links to the continuum of tradition. The singers studied are represented in the media as creatures of the past, regardless of which era in time they are from. Though the artists themselves see tradition as vibrant and living, and produce music that exhibits that fact, the constraints of the genre norms—both in terms of the genre of music and the genre of music journalism—call for them to be seen as creatures of the nostalgized past, defined by their origin narratives. |
