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Sardinian Chronicles - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Teresa Lavender Fagan, Bernard Lortat-Jacob

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Picturesque vignettes of Sardinian music and culture.

Imagine being swept away to the rustic landscapes of Sardinia where music isn't just an art form, but a heartbeat of daily life. 'Sardinian Chronicles' isn't your conventional ethnomusicology text; it's a collection of intimate portraits that tell a larger story about tradition, community, and the rhythm of rural life. If you've ever been curious about how music can define a culture, or you just love stories that sing with local color, this book could be a delightful escape.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Sardinian Chronicles - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

by Teresa Lavender Fagan, Bernard Lortat-Jacob
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ISBN: 9780226493411
Authors: Teresa Lavender Fagan, Bernard Lortat-Jacob
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date of Publication: 1995-03-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Music, Sociology
Related Topics: History, Social Issues, Gender
Goodreads rating: 3.67
(rated by 6 readers)

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In Sardinian Chronicles, Bernard Lortat-Jacob poetically evokes Sardinian music through a series of encounters with individual musicians and their families. Refusing to separate the music from the world in which it arises, Lortat-Jacob offers twelve vignettes focused on individuals such as Cocco, a chicken farmer who deciphers the shapes of his fowl and the layout of his henhouses in the constellations of a summer sky, and Pietro, a sleep-walking postman who divides his time between mail deliveries and impromptu serenades. These vignettes bring to life an art still very much the music of villages with an oral tradition, sung or played in the company of others. Through his sensitive portraits of music makers and their families, Lortat-Jacob overcomes some of the epistemological and methodological dilemmas facing his field today, while also giving the general reader a sense of the multiple and idiosyncratic ways that music is involved in everyday life. With a foreword by Michel Leiris and a compact disc containing samples of the music being discussed, this book constitutes a breakthrough in ethnomusicology that will also interest many in Mediterranean studies and European anthropology.
 

Picturesque vignettes of Sardinian music and culture.

Imagine being swept away to the rustic landscapes of Sardinia where music isn't just an art form, but a heartbeat of daily life. 'Sardinian Chronicles' isn't your conventional ethnomusicology text; it's a collection of intimate portraits that tell a larger story about tradition, community, and the rhythm of rural life. If you've ever been curious about how music can define a culture, or you just love stories that sing with local color, this book could be a delightful escape.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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