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Language, the singer and the song : the sociolinguistics of folk performance / Richard J. Watts and Franz Andres Morrissey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019.Description: xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107112711
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4842213 W349l
LOC classification:
  • ML3916 .W37
Contents:
Introduction -- Prologue -- Language and music -- Part I: Creating community and identity through song -- Breaking through' into performance -- The community of folk song: co-performance and co-production -- Answering back: rebels with and without a cause -- Part II: Variation in language and folksong -- The times they are a-Changin" : language change and song change -- Ideologies, authenticities and traditions -- 'Insects caught in Amber' : preserving songs in print, transcript and recording -- Part III: Folk song performance and Linguistics -- Voices in the folk song -- The song: text and Entextualisation in performance -- Going out there and doing your thing -- Enregisterment through song : the performer's credibility -- Epilogue -- Whither folk song, whither sociolinguistics -- Appendix: Overview of musical concepts : References -- Index.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Prologue -- Language and music -- Part I: Creating community and identity through song -- Breaking through' into performance -- The community of folk song: co-performance and co-production -- Answering back: rebels with and without a cause -- Part II: Variation in language and folksong -- The times they are a-Changin" : language change and song change -- Ideologies, authenticities and traditions -- 'Insects caught in Amber' : preserving songs in print, transcript and recording -- Part III: Folk song performance and Linguistics -- Voices in the folk song -- The song: text and Entextualisation in performance -- Going out there and doing your thing -- Enregisterment through song : the performer's credibility -- Epilogue -- Whither folk song, whither sociolinguistics -- Appendix: Overview of musical concepts : References -- Index.

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