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Icelandic Men and Me - Sagas of Singing, Self and Everyday Life (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Icelandic Men and Me - Sagas of Singing, Self and Everyday Life (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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A sparsely populated island in the North Atlantic recently made
worldwide headlines in the Global Financial Crisis and for volcanic
eruptions that caused unprecedented chaos to international air
travel. Large contemporary audiences have formed very different
images of Iceland through the vocal music and music videos of BjArk
and Sigur RA(3)s. Just below the Arctic Circle, Icelandic men
engage in more everyday vocal practices, where singing, literally
for one's Self, is an everyday life skill set against a backdrop of
unique natural, historical, economic and social phenomena. Their
sagas of song and singing are the subject of this book. The
original Icelandic Sagas - among the most important collections of
medieval European literature - are valued for richly detailed
portrayals of individual lives. This book's principle protagonists
and collaborators share a heritage where Sagas remain central to
national and local identity. While the oral traditions associated
with them were largely overwhelmed by European romanticism just
over a hundred years ago, ironically, this new vocal music became a
key technology for national renewal. Written by an 'immigrant'
musician who lived in a remote Icelandic community for over twenty
years, this volume focuses upon individual and collective stories
about singing as personal and social work. Drawing upon everyday
ethnographic and sociological studies of music, and emerging
discourse about musical identity, the study uses anthropological,
historical and musicological evidence in thinking about songs,
singing and Self, and the genderedness of this particular singing
practice.
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