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Transported by song : Corsican voices from oral tradition to world stage
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- Creator
- Caroline Bithell
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007
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- Physical Details
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- xliii, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, music ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810859388, 9780810854390, 0810859386, 0810854392
- OCLC
- ocm80360310
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299), discography (pages 275-279), filmography (page 281), and index.
- Part 1. Island culture, traditional song, and the Corsican sound : historical and conceptual roots. Histories and identities : the island and its people -- Songs of the oral tradition : genres and contexts -- The Corsican sound and the power of song
- Part 2. Mobilizing tradition in a secular age : cultural identity and musical reincarnations. Traditional music, chanson, and folklore c. 1920-1970 : the challenge of modernity -- The riacquistu : cultural associations, musical militants, and the generation of 1970 -- Cultural development and polyphonic renaissance in the 1980s
- Part 3. Bridging worlds : contemporary voices, local realities, and transnational processes. Multiculturalism, world music, métissage, and polyphony : navigating transnational spaces -- Corsican identity in the new Europe : mediterraneanism, cultural policy, and support for creative development -- Professional groups, performance culture, and the living tradition in a new millennium