Island songs
Subtitle: a global repertoire
By: edited by Godfrey Baldacchino
Contributors: Advance Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (Project)
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780810881778; 9780810881785
Subjects: Social life and customs; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Social aspects; Island people; History and criticism; Singing
Description: "Through the close analysis of musical performance and tradition, the scholarly contributiors to Island Songs provide a global review of how island songs, their lyrics, and their singers engage with the challenges of modernity, migration , and social change uncovering common patterns despite the diversity and local character of their subjects"--Cover p. [4].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: English Caribbean : when people cannot talk, they sing / Ijahnya Christian; title: Spanish Caribbean : liquid identities / Soraya Marcano; title: French Caribbean : Adieu foulard, adieu madras : a sonic study in (post)colonialism / Yoko Oryu and Godfrey Baldacchino; title: Cape Breton Island : living in the past? Gaelic language, song and competition / Heather Sparling; title: Newfoundland : from Ron Hynes to Hey Rosetta! / Deatra Walsh; title: Scotland's Hebrides : song and culture, transmission and transformation / Ray Burnett and Kathryn Burnett; title: Jersey : Jèrriais, song and language revitalization / Henry Johnson; title: Papua New Guinea : popular music and the continuity of tradition : an ethnographic study of songs by the band Paramana Strangers / Oli Wilson; title: Fiji islands : a sustainable future for sigidrigi? / Jennifer Cattermole; title: Chiloé : an offshore song culture / Waldo Garrido and Philip Hayward; title: Crete : souls of soil : island identity through song / Maria Hnaraki; title: Sicily : navigating responses to global cultural patterns / Sergio Bonanzinga; title: Aeolian islands : three singers, their folk songs and the interpretation of tradition / Cristoforo Garigliano; title: Ibiza and Formentera : worlds of singers and songs / Judith R. Cohen; title: Gotland : where "folk culture" and "island" overlap / Owe Ronström.