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Island Songs
A Global Repertoire
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2011
Summary
Islands are concentrated "instances" of place, in every sense of the term. As such, there are no better candidates for observing and critiquing the dynamics of globalization. Through the close analysis of musical performance and traditions, the scholarly contributors 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 notwithstanding the diversity and local specificity of their subjects. In this musical exploration of the world of islands, a shared and deep "sense of place" is celebrated in song. This collection of essays is no less than a sonic narrative, an attempt to sing the inherent contradictions and paradoxical modalities of island lives today.
Song lyrics, along with their accompanying music, can serve as a barometer of life and major cultural markers of change. 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.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8177-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8178-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
297
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: English Caribbean No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 2: Spanish Caribbean No access Pages 19 - 36
Chapter 3: French Caribbean No access Pages 37 - 48
Chapter 4: Cape Breton Island: Living in the Past? No access Pages 49 - 64
Chapter 5: Newfoundland No access Pages 65 - 80
Chapter 6: Scotland’s Hebrides No access Pages 81 - 102
Chapter 7: Jersey No access Pages 103 - 118
Chapter 8: Papua New Guinea No access Pages 119 - 134
Chapter 9: Fiji Islands No access Pages 135 - 152
Chapter 10: Chiloé No access Pages 153 - 170
Chapter 11: Crete—Souls of Soil No access Pages 171 - 186
Chapter 12: Sicily No access Pages 187 - 202
Chapter 13: Aeolian Islands No access Pages 203 - 222
Chapter 14: Ibiza and Formentera No access Pages 223 - 244
Chapter 15: Gotland No access Pages 245 - 260
Epilogue No access Pages 261 - 280
Index No access Pages 281 - 292
About the Contributors No access Pages 293 - 297
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