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Language, the Singer and the Song: The Sociolinguistics of Folk Performance

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019.Description: xvii, 372pISBN:
  • 978-1-107-11271-1
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4842213
Summary: 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.
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Includes Bibliographic references and index.

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.

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