Language, the singer and the song : the sociolinguistics of folk performance /
Watts, Richard J.,
Language, the singer and the song : the sociolinguistics of folk performance / Richard J. Watts and Franz Andres Morrissey. - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019. - xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
9781107112711
Music--Performance--Social aspects.
Music and language.
Folk songs--History and criticism.
ML3916 / .W37
306.4842213 / W349l
Language, the singer and the song : the sociolinguistics of folk performance / Richard J. Watts and Franz Andres Morrissey. - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019. - xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
9781107112711
Music--Performance--Social aspects.
Music and language.
Folk songs--History and criticism.
ML3916 / .W37
306.4842213 / W349l