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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457803203321

Titolo

Island songs [[electronic resource] ] : a global repertoire / / edited by Godfrey Baldacchino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-44703-7

9786613447036

0-8108-8178-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BaldacchinoGodfrey

Disciplina

782.420914/2

Soggetti

Singing - Social aspects

Island people - Music - History and criticism

Island people - Social life and customs

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

English Caribbean : when people cannot talk, they sing / Ijahnya Christian -- Spanish Caribbean : liquid identities / Soraya Marcano -- French Caribbean : Adieu foulard, adieu madras : a sonic study in (post)colonialism / Yoko Oryu and Godfrey Baldacchino -- Cape Breton Island : living in the past? Gaelic language, song and competition / Heather Sparling -- Newfoundland : from Ron Hynes to Hey Rosetta! / Deatra Walsh -- Scotland's Hebrides : song and culture, transmission and transformation / Ray Burnett and Kathryn Burnett -- Jersey : Jèrriais, song and language revitalization / Henry Johnson -- Papua New Guinea : popular music and the continuity of tradition : an ethnographic study of songs by the band Paramana Strangers / Oli Wilson -- Fiji islands : a sustainable future for sigidrigi? / Jennifer Cattermole -- Chiloé : an offshore song culture / Waldo Garrido and Philip Hayward -- Crete : souls of soil : island identity through song / Maria Hnaraki -- Sicily : navigating responses to global cultural patterns / Sergio Bonanzinga -- Aeolian islands : three singers, their folk songs and the interpretation of tradition / Cristoforo Garigliano -- Ibiza and Formentera : worlds of



singers and songs / Judith R. Cohen -- Gotland : where "folk culture" and "island" overlap / Owe Ronström.

Sommario/riassunto

Island Songs is a work of sonic anthropology that does more than probe song as a part of the sociocultural life on islands. It illuminates how song performs island life. Gathered here are 15 case study chapters on islands in the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Baltic, and the South Pacific, all framed by four eclectic, conceptual essay contributions. In Island Songs, islands are presented as distinct vantage points f

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Record Nr.

UNICASRML0266352

Autore

Maunder, Leonard

Titolo

Machines in motion / Leonard Maunder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge University Press, : Cambridge, 1986

ISBN

0521300347

Descrizione fisica

192 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Disciplina

621.811

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia