Watts, Richard J. and Morrissey, Franz Andres <br/><br/>
Language, the Singer and the Song:  The Sociolinguistics of Folk Performance 

 - United Kingdom:  Cambridge University Press,  2019. 
 - xvii, 372p. : 
<br/><br/>Includes Bibliographic references and index. 
<br/><br/> This book offers a thorough and convincing sociolinguistic exploration of folk songs.The book refreshes and enlarges our understanding of language and music as communication systems.The relationship between language and music has much in common-rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. This book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-1-107-11271-1 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Music-Performance--Social aspects----Music and Language--Folk Songs
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4842213