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999 _c390893
_d390893
020 _a978-1-107-11271-1
082 _a306.4842213
100 _aWatts, Richard J. and Morrissey, Franz Andres
245 _aLanguage, the Singer and the Song:
_bThe Sociolinguistics of Folk Performance
260 _aUnited Kingdom:
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2019.
300 _axvii, 372p. :
504 _aIncludes Bibliographic references and index.
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aMusic-Performance--Social aspects----Music and Language--Folk Songs
942 _cBK