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Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Music and Song Lyrics
Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Music and Song Lyrics looks at a variety of popular and folk music from around the world, with examples of British, Slovene, Chinese and American songs, poems and musicals. Charles Taylor says that “it is through story that we find or devise ways of living bearably in time”; one can make the same claim for music. Inexorably tied to time, to the measure of the beat, but freed from time by the polysemous potential of the words, song rapidly becomes “our” song, helping to cement memory and community, to make the past comprehensible and the present bearable. The authors of the fifteen chapters in this volume demonstrate how lyrics set to music can reflect, express and construct collective identities, both traditional and contemporary.
Symphony and Song
Symphony and Song takes its title from Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan,” and explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. The contributors to this volume apply recent theoretical approaches ranging from the “Mozart Effect” in cognitive psychology, through stylistics and conceptual metaphor, to transtextuality in the analysis of a range of songs, song lyrics, poetry, ekphrastic prose, and instrumental music. Topics explored here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, political instrumentalization and censorship of song lyrics, and teaching foreign language using songs.
Chodząc w ich butach...
Zamieszczone w książce artykuły świadczą o dobrej lub bardzo dobrej orientacji ich autorów w zasadniczym przedmiocie rozważań, w większości wypadków ukazują również bogactwo ich aparatu badawczego, erudycję i umiejętność nietuzinkowej kontekstualizacji. Fenomen Depeche Mode postrzegany jest bowiem z wielu różnych perspektyw: literaturoznawczej (interpretacyjnej), lingwistycznej (fonologicznej), antropologicznej, kulturoznawczej, politycznej, muzykologicznej oraz filmoznawczej (co zresztą sprawia, że opiniowana publikacja może okazać się najważniejszą w Polsce książką poświęconą tytułowemu zespołowi). (fragment opinii wydawniczej dra Tomasza Dalasińskiego)
Kultura rocka 2. Słowo, dźwięk, performance
Stan badań na temat kultury rocka w polskim obszarze nauki jest jeszcze mało zaznaczony, jednak w ciągu kilkunastu ubiegłych lat można zauważyć wyraźną tendencję zwyżkową w tej dziedzinie. Na świecie, szczególnie w krajach anglosaskich, badania nad rockiem od wielu lat cieszą się niesłabnącą popularnością.
Kultura rocka 1. Twórcy, tematy, motywy
Stan badań na temat kultury rocka w polskim obszarze nauki jest jeszcze mało zaznaczony, jednak w ciągu kilkunastu ubiegłych lat można zauważyć wyraźną tendencję zwyżkową w tej dziedzinie. Na świecie, szczególnie w krajach anglosaskich, badania nad rockiem od wielu lat cieszą się niesłabnącą popularnością.
Celebrity Accents and Public Identity Construction
Geordie Stylizations is a short-focused research work which builds on the renovated interest on the nexus between accent-identity-prestige-prejudice, offering an analysis of celebrities' use of the Geordie variety in a series of public performances as a reflection instrument for scholars, but also for neophyte readers with an interest in Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Celebrity Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Gender Studies. Of interest are the individual instances of Geordieness performed on specific occasions, i.e. the ways in which people construct their unique and constantly evolving language repertoires sometimes appropriating some, other times distancing themselves from, linguistic traits that would characterize them as members of specific communities in other people's perceptions. The material investigated is provided by the artistic world: engaging with the arts and culture, and in particular with music, is not just a solitary event, but also a participatory one which many people feel is worthwhile sharing through ordinary conversation and interaction via social networks every day.
Language, the Singer and the Song
The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. Based on ethnomusicologist John Blacking's contention that any song performed communally is a 'folk song' regardless of its generic origins, it argues that folk song to a far greater extent than other song genres displays 'communal' or 'inclusive' types of performance. The defining feature of folk song as a multi-modal instantiation of music and language is its participatory nature, making it ideal for sociolinguistic analysis. In this sense, a folk song is the product of specific types of developing social interaction whose major purpose is the construction of a temporally and locally based community. Through repeated instantiations, this can lead to disparate communities of practice, which, over time, develop sociocultural registers and a communal stance towards aspects of meaningful events in everyday lives that become typical of a discourse community.
The Theory of Lexical Phonology
This book contains some of the material which originally appeared in my Ph. D. thesis Lexical Phonology, submitted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it can hardly be called a revised version of the thesis. The theory that I propose here is in many ways radically different from the one that I proposed in the thesis, and there is a great deal of new data and analyses from English and Malayalam. Chapter VI is so new that I haven't even had the time to try it out on my friends. As everyone knows, research is a collective enterprise, even though an individual's name appears on the first page of the book or article. I would think of this book as a joint project involving dozens of ...
Style
Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This 2007 book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains how speakers project different social identities and create different social relationships through their style choices, and how speech-style and social context inter-relate. Style therefore refers to the wide range of strategic actions and performances that speakers engage in, to construct themselves and their social lives. Coupland draws on and integrates a wide variety of contemporary sociolinguistic research as well as his own extensive research in this field. The emphasis is on how social meanings are made locally, in specific relationships, genres, groups and cultures, and on studying language variation as part of the analysis of spoken discourse.
Singing and Communicating in English
In Singing and Communicating in English, internationally renowned diction coach Kathryn LaBouff provides singers with an accessible guide to the principles of English diction they need to communicate the text successfully. In addition to standard American and British English, a variety of regional dialects and accents are covered in depth. A companion website features a full range of vowel/consonant drills, poems read aloud by the author and veteran theater and voiceover actor John Keating, as well as an instructor's answer key, and publishers' lists to help the singer locate a vast array of English language works for performance.
