Music, words and voice
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Martin Clayton.
Contributors: Clayton, Martin.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780719077876; 9780719077883
Subjects: Music and literature.; Ethnomusicology.
Description: Music, Words and Voice: A Reader is an interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music, language and literature. Designed for the undergraduate students, the book uniquely examines a historically and geographically diverse selection of genres from a variety of academic perspectives. It also explores issues of voice, speech and song, language, musical form, performance, narrative and identity, and the relationships between them. - Back cover.
Notes: "Published in association with The Open University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.