TY - BOOK AU - Watts, Richard J. and Morrissey, Franz Andres TI - Language, the Singer and the Song: The Sociolinguistics of Folk Performance SN - 978-1-107-11271-1 U1 - 306.4842213 PY - 2019/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Music-Performance--Social aspects----Music and Language--Folk Songs N1 - Includes Bibliographic references and index N2 - 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 ER -