Island songs a global repertoire / [electronic resource] : edited by Godfrey Baldacchino. - Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011. - xli, 297 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 : Jerriais, 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 -- Chiloe : 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 Ronstrom.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780810881785 (electronic bk.)




Singing--Social aspects.
Island people--Music--History and criticism.
Island people--Social life and customs.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.


Electronic books.

ML3838 / .I85 2011

782.420914/2