Islands are concentrated "instances" of place, in every sense of
the term. As such, there are no better candidates for observing and
critiquing the dynamics of globalization. Through the close
analysis of musical performance and traditions, the scholarly
contributors to Island Songs provide a global review of how island
songs, their lyrics, and their singers engage with the challenges
of modernity, migration, and social change, uncovering common
patterns notwithstanding the diversity and local specificity of
their subjects. In this musical exploration of the world of
islands, a shared and deep "sense of place" is celebrated in song.
This collection of essays is no less than a sonic narrative, an
attempt to sing the inherent contradictions and paradoxical
modalities of island lives today. Song lyrics, along with their
accompanying music, can serve as a barometer of life and major
cultural markers of change. Island Songs is a work of sonic
anthropology that does more than probe song as a part of the
sociocultural life on islands. It illuminates how song performs
island life. Gathered here are 15 case study chapters on islands in
the Caribbean, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Baltic, and the South
Pacific, all framed by four eclectic, conceptual essay
contributions. In Island Songs, islands are presented as distinct
vantage points for observing the merger of the local and the
global, as poignantly expressed through song. This book brings
together the perspectives and experiences of sociologists,
anthropologists, geographers, cultural studies specialists,
folklorists, ethnomusicologists, singers, and musicians. Island
Songs will interest not only ethnomusicologists but any and all
scholars interested in the effects of globalization on traditional
cultures.
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