Island songs : a global repertoire / edited by Godfrey Baldacchino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baldacchino, Godfrey.

Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (Project)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singing--Social aspects.

Singing.

Island people--Music--History and criticism.

Island people.

Island people--Social life and customs.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Manners and customs.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xli, 297 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, [2011]

Summary:

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 for observing the merger of the local and the global, as poignantly expressed through song. This book brings together the perspectives and experiences of sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, cultural studies specialists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists, singers, and musicians. Island Songs will interest not only ethnomusicologists but any and all scholars interested in the effects of globalization on traditional cultures.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0810881772

9780810881778

9780810881785

0810881780

OCLC:

730054596

Publisher Number:

99946502976