Island songs [electronic resource] : a global repertoire / edited by Godfrey Baldacchino.
"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 div...
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2011.
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Island Songs: A Global Repertoire |
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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.