| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 259 pages) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Music and Song Lyrics looks at a variety of popular and folk music from around the world, with examples of British, Slovene, Chinese and American songs, poems and musicals. Charles Taylor says that "it is through story that we find or devise ways of living bearably in time"; one can make the same claim for music. Inexorably tied to time, to the measure of the beat, but freed from time by the polysemous potential of the words, song rapidly becomes "our" song, helping to cement memory and community, to make the past comprehensible and the present bearable. The authors of the fifteen chapters in this volume demonstrate how lyrics set to music can reflect, express and construct collective identities, both traditional and contemporary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2017) |
| Subject |
Music -- Social aspects.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Folk & traditional music.
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Literary studies: poetry & poets.
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Cultural studies.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Music -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kenn, Victor, editor
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Gadpaille, Michelle, 1953-
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| ISBN |
9781443896207 |
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1443896209 |
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