31.1726, Books: Language, the Singer and the Song: Watts, Morrissey

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Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 21:40:44
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language, the Singer and the Song: Watts, Morrissey

 


Title: Language, the Singer and the Song 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-singer-and-song-sociolinguistics-folk-performance?format=HB 


Author: Richard J. Watts
Author: Franz Andres Morrissey

Electronic: ISBN:  9781316998458 Pages: 390 Price: U.S. $ 100
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107112711 Pages: 390 Price: U.S. $ 125


Abstract:

The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm,
structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance,
this book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. Based on
ethnomusicologist John Blacking's contention that any song performed
communally is a 'folk song' regardless of its generic origins, it argues that
folk song to a far greater extent than other song genres displays 'communal'
or 'inclusive' types of performance. The defining feature of folk song as a
multi-modal instantiation of music and language is its participatory nature,
making it ideal for sociolinguistic analysis. In this sense, a folk song is
the product of specific types of developing social interaction whose major
purpose is the construction of a temporally and locally based community.
Through repeated instantiations, this can lead to disparate communities of
practice, which, over time, develop sociocultural registers and a communal
stance towards aspects of meaningful events in everyday lives that become
typical of a discourse community.

Introduction
Part I. Creating Community and Identity through Song:
1. Language and music
2. 'Breaking through' into performance'
3. The communality of folk song
4. Answering back: rebels with and without a cause
Part II. Variation in Language and Folk Song:
5. 'The times they are a-changing'
6. Ideologies, authenticities and traditions
7. 'Insects caught in amber'
Part III. Folk Song Performance and Linguistics:
8. Voices in the folk song
9. The song: text and entextualisation in performance
10. Going out there and doing your thing
11. Enregisterment through song
12. Whither folk song, whither sociolinguistics?
Appendix: overview of musical concepts.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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