TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watts, Richard J.,
AU  - Morrissey,Franz Andres
TI  - Language, the singer and the song: the sociolinguistics of folk performance 
SN  - 9781107112711
AV  - ML3916 .W37
U1  - 306.4842213 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Music
KW  - Performance
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Music and language
KW  - Folk songs
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
ER  -